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Learning the World: A Scientific Romance QUOTES

Learning the World: A Scientific Romance QUOTES

1 " We’re here now, we have the means to stop the suffering, and therefore the duty to act. "

― Ken MacLeod , Learning the World: A Scientific Romance

2 " Brides and babies and strong dark men and intellectual and sensual women and the prospect of wide-open spaces to populate with humanity had always made her weak at the knees. "

― Ken MacLeod , Learning the World: A Scientific Romance

3 " Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about whether your personalities and sexualities were compatible. "

― Ken MacLeod , Learning the World: A Scientific Romance

4 " Fascinating,’ said Darvin. ‘The mystery of life. The miracle of reproduction. I don’t know why I didn’t learn all this in school.’ ‘I did not,’ said Orro. ‘I read it in an imaginative but broadly accurate illustrated treatise inscribed, if memory serves, on the wall of a municipal pissery. "

― Ken MacLeod , Learning the World: A Scientific Romance