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“Be patient with him. If the same quality did not exist in you, you wouldn’t notice it in him.”
― Robyn Mundell, Brainwalker

tags: be-patient, brain, middle-grade, personality-trait, quality, science, science-fiction, scientist

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“Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.”
― Aldous Huxley

tags: causality, error, intelligence, theories

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“Without persistence, what remains is an enthusiasm of the moment. Without adaptability, what remains may be channeled into destructive fanaticism.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

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“Не съществува никаква свобода, без значение дали вратите пред теб са отворени или не, всичко е глупост и хаос и съществува единствено самотата...”
― Arkady Strugatsky, The Snail on the Slope

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“The Lady Ishil gestured. "Oh, we asked. It wasn't difficult. Everyone in this pigsty of a town seems to know where you sleep." A delicately curled lip. She let him go. "And with who."
Ringil ignored that one. "I'm a hero, Mother. What do you expect?”
― Richard K. Morgan, The Steel Remains

tags: heroes-and-mothers

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