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Muse of Fire
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The Muse touched down during the hours the hot simoom winds blew. No one came out from the huddled stone city to meet us. The thousands of arbeiters were either sleeping in their barracks between shifts or working in the mines, dropping
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“I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing—a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process—an integral function of the universe.”
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“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong”
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“We are called to be the architects of the future, not its victims.”
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“If Marx came back to life today, he would probably urge his few remaining disciples to devote less time to reading Das Kapital and more time to studying the Internet and the human genome.”
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
“Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality.”
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