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“Already, the brain consumed more than a quarter of the body's blood supply... an organ accounting for only a small percentage of body mass. If brains grew larger, and better, then perhaps they would consume more - perhaps so much that, like an infection, they would overrun their hosts and kill the bodies that transported them. Or perhaps, in their infinite cleverness, they would find a way to destroy themselves and each other. There were times when, as he [Stone] sat at State Department or Defense Department meetings, and looked around the table, he would see nothing more than a dozen gray, convoluted brains sitting on the table... Just brains, sitting around, trying to decide how to outwit other brains, at other conference tables.
Idiotic.”
― The Andromeda Strain
Idiotic.”
― The Andromeda Strain
“I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea....”
― And Then There Were None
― And Then There Were None
“The rock, for its part, is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of its lifespan. To it, we are like flashes in the dark.”
― The Andromeda Strain
― The Andromeda Strain
“Fear, what a strange thing fear was...”
― And Then There Were None
― And Then There Were None
“When a man's neck's in danger, he doesn't stop to think too much about
sentiment.”
― And Then There Were None
sentiment.”
― And Then There Were None
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