The Humans
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Then I consumed something else. A foodstuff wrapped in synthetic packaging. This was, I would later realize, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside clothing. Bodies inside wrappers. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was
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“The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. —NDT”
― Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
― Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
“The unspoken agreement among them: not only would Donald Trump not be president, he should probably not be. Conveniently, the former conviction meant nobody had to deal with the latter issue.”
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
“Early success is a terrible teacher.”
― An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
― An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
“Where Mark Zuckerberg wants to help you share baby photos, Musk wants to . . . well . . . save the human race from self-imposed or accidental annihilation.”
― Elon Musk: Inventing the Future
― Elon Musk: Inventing the Future
“From the point of view of a mayfly, human beings are stolid, boring, almost entirely immovable, offering hardly a hint that they ever do anything. From the point of view of a star, a human being is a tiny flash, one of billions of brief lives flickering tenuously on the surface of a strangely cold, anomalously solid, exotically remote sphere of silicate and iron.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
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