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La pensée est le labeur de l'intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté. Remplacer la pensée par la rêverie, c'est confondre un poison avec une nourriture.
“You look concerned.” Books turned the wheel to screw down the press. “It’s my new normative state,” Amaranthe said.”
― The Emperor's Edge
― The Emperor's Edge
“Where Einstein was pushing the boundaries of knowledge forward, in the hope of learning ever more, Rashid was studying the past, in the hope of gleaning from it what man might, to his sorrow, have forgotten.”
― The Einstein Prophecy
― The Einstein Prophecy
“For us to perceive intelligence, it has to fit within our behavioural framework.”
― The Swarm: A Novel
― The Swarm: A Novel
“I stared down at the green and the red book. Weighing them in my hands, I began to understand that having two identities wasn’t a seesaw, or a pair of scales. I was British, and I was Nigerian. Both sides had equal weight in shaping who I was. Others would want me to choose between them. They would want to know on which side my heart, head and soul lay. Looking at the green and red books, I saw that was a false choice. I could rip myself in two trying to find an answer, or I could reject the question. I was both. I was an indivisible whole.”
― They Don't Teach This
― They Don't Teach This
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