Ne yapmak istediğine, ne yapması gerektiğine, ne yapmaya mecbur olduğuna dair hiçbir fikri bulunmayan kafası karmakarışık tek bir varlıktım.
-Tüm Sistemler Çöktü, Martha Wells
“This vista represents a pinnacle of human scientific achievement,” he said. “I do not expect the common man to recognize the beauty of it. But do not fret. There are more things on heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Come, let me show them to you."
Böyle bir kavgada onurun yeri yoktur. İnsan bir hamamböceğini dururken mi yoksa kaçarken mi öldürmek daha onurludur diye düşünmez. Hamamböceği hamamböceğidir ve amaç basit bir şekilde onu öldürmektir.
The appeal to decency, helped along by the booze, got through the man’s filters, just for a few seconds, but long enough for it to worry Banks for a while after the scientist went unsteadily back to his seat.
“Let’s just say it’s not going to be like any zoo you’ve ever seen. Not like one that anyone has ever seen—not for ten thousand years at least.”
“Wiggins has a point though. We generally have some idea what we’re going to be up against,” he said, realizing as he said it that it was mostly a lie.