Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim.
Robert Charles Wilson
The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we were alone, now as before. Every conversation between friends or lovers creates its own easy or awkward rhythms, hidden talk that runs like a subterranean river under even the most banal exchange.
friendship conversation
I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.
religion god
There are so many kinds of time. The time by which we measure our lives. Months and years. Or the time, the time that raises mountains and makes stars. Or all the things that happen between one heartbeat and the next. Its hard to live in all those kinds of times. Easy to that you live in all of them.
philosophy time
Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.
lying childhood deceit adulthood
Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.
people
We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.
people thetimes time
Don't despise life.
life
Don't tell me. It changed your life. I was smiling. She smiled back. It didn't even change my mind.
life change mind
Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.
life change
I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.
money
Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight. There was nothing pleasant about the experience. Its only consolation was its truth and its only virtue was its utility.
virtues content truth experience
Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?
truth
Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!
chance survival men nature truth thetimes time
evolution business
Deacon Hollingshead: The history of the world is written in Scripture, and it ends in a Kingdom. Julian Comstock: The history of the world is written in sand, and it evolves as the wind blows.
history theend
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