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"And so his brother had been killed, his brother who had laughed at him but who had loved him as well, loved him before anyone else thought of him at all. Sax wandered over the fractured plain, distraught – distraught at the loss of a friend a hundred and fifty-three years before. Sometimes it seemed there was no such thing as time."

"Indeed, compared to things like human history or psychology or culture, it was even somehow comforting. It was only quantum mechanics after all, something that could be modelled by mathematics." I love Sax. I've also felt this way about complex processes.

I really like Sax. He's such a quintessential Scientist Character and Robinson really explores scientific philosophy through him. The number of times I've heard someone say irl that mathematics is the language of nature!

"History was a wave that ran through time slightly faster than an individual life did, so that even when people lived to only seventy or eighty they had been behind the wave by the time they died."

"...doing everything possible to protect one’s offspring; which of course endangered all offspring, by the aggregate of individual selfish actions."

The image of Sax lying down to look at flowers is so cute. Real old man hours.