Life moved ever outward into infinite possibilities and yet all things were perfect and finished in every single moment, their end attained. — David Zindell Copy Share Image
“Historically, holism had been a break from the reductionist methods of science. Holism (...) is a way of viewing the universe as a web of interactions and relationships. Whole systems (and the universe can be seen as an overarching system of systems) have properties beyond those of their parts. All things are, in some sense, alive, or a part of… — David Zindell Copy Share
We are the eyes through which the Univers observes itself and knows itself divine. — David Zindell Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“The number two, he thought, was an ominous number. Two is a reflection or duplication of one, the most perfect of the natural numbers. Two is all echo and counterpoise; two is the beginning of multiplicity, the way the universal oneness differentiates itself and breaks apart into strings and quarks and photons, all the separate and component pieces of life.… — 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 this reality into separate categories created by the mind was foolish and futile, much like trying to capture a ray of light inside a dark wooden box. This urge to categorize was the true fall of… — 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?' 'They're modelled as points of light. Ten trillion points of light.' She didn't explain how neurotransmitters diffuse across the synapses, causing the individual neurons to fire. Danlo knew nothing of chemistry or electricity. Instead, she tried… — 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 Image