Jesse Williams

“one of the deep mysteries of the origin of life is the almost indecent haste with which it arose on Earth.”
― Stephen Webb, If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life

“Isaac liked the idea of an inter-aspectual entity so enamoured with knowledge that it just roamed from realm to realm in a bath, murmuring with interest at everything it came across.”
― China Miéville, Perdido Street Station

“Being a child is like nothing. It’s only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.”
― China Miéville, Embassytown

“The point isn’t that we should expect moral perfection, or that we can know all objective moral truths, only that our smugness should be kept in check and our judgment of past generations should be tempered by recognition of their progress and our own failings. Too often we seem to think that barbarians are in the past and that we’ve reached some pinnacle. I think the climbing never ends.”
― Hugh Howey, Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories