“Historically, holism had been a break from the reductionist methods of science. Holism (...) is a way of viewing the universe as a web… — David Zindell Copy Share
We are the eyes through which the Univers observes itself and knows itself divine. — David Zindell Copy Share
For it is only in accepting death that one can truly live, and for the human animal, death has always been the great black… — David Zindell Copy Share
If you kill me, you kill yourself." [...] He only wanted to convey to Janegg the truth of ahimsa, which is that all beings… — David Zindell Copy Share
We walk the brink of racial suicide because we were smart enough to make atomic bombs and stupid enough to use them. — David Zindell Copy Share
A man lusts to become a god…and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder? — David Zindell Copy Share
“The number two, he thought, was an ominous number. Two is a reflection or duplication of one, the most perfect of the natural numbers.… — David Zindell Copy Share
“Reality [...] at every level from photons to philosophical fancies to the consciousness of living organisms was fluid [...]. To break apart and confine… — David Zindell Copy Share
“So many synapses,' Drisana said. 'Ten trillion synapses in the cortex alone.' Danlo made a fist and asked, 'What do the synapses look like?'… — David Zindell Copy Share
“Science,’ he informed me, ‘might not yet have all the answers, but it is the only verifiable—and hence meaningful—way of asking the right questions.’… — David Zindell Copy Share
It's not enough to look for the truth, however a noble journey that might be. [...] You must be able to say "yes" to… — David Zindell Copy Share
What is a human being, then?' A seed' A... seed?' An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree. — David Zindell Copy Share
