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The Doors of Eden QUOTES

The Doors of Eden QUOTES

1 " We’re here and they trust us.’ Mal chuckled. ‘It’s a million-to-one long shot, and only these two desperate lesbians can save the world. Perfect action movie material. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , The Doors of Eden

2 " Only one needs to find the answer, but difference is strength. To save everything, we need as much difference as possible. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , The Doors of Eden

3 " Well firstly, darling, I am the best theoretical mathematician and physicist you will ever meet. And I am fucking well meant to be able to understand impossible shit like this,” Kay said sourly. “And secondly, I think the world is going to end, and I need to understand this if I’m going to make it stop. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , The Doors of Eden

4 " she had borrowed hope at a ruinous interest rate—one that she had no chance of paying back. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , The Doors of Eden

5 " Evolution is inevitable once you have an imperfectly self-replicating system in an environment of limited resources. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , The Doors of Eden

6 " There are metrics of success that would place ants, beetles or bacteria at the top. However, we are all naturally biased to value large, fierce animals, those that can adapt to change and exploit opportunities. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , The Doors of Eden

7 " these early signs collapsed like enlightened empires before the tides of barbarism. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , The Doors of Eden

8 " Far more than the disputed effects of Toxoplasma gondii in your domestic pets, "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , The Doors of Eden

9 " Lucas May had been in the army, though not, as he tended to tell people, in the SAS. Instead, he’d done his time in the logistics corps, organizing the movement of people and things from place to place, which probably gave him a more useful skillset. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , The Doors of Eden

10 " Big doesn’t mean smart, of course; ask any sauropod. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , The Doors of Eden

11 " There is a place in our minds now that tools—made things, things of value—occupy, and there was a time when our ancestors’ minds had no such place. Nothing was ever for keeps, and there was no tomorrow for the tool-makers. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , The Doors of Eden

12 " there is something magical about the boundary between land and water that nurtures complexity. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , The Doors of Eden

13 " To adapt to the surf and shore is to shoulder more burdens than to commit wholly to either land or water. "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , The Doors of Eden

14 " she had borrowed hope at a ruinous interest rate—one that she had no chance of paying back. She "

― Adrian Tchaikovsky , The Doors of Eden