Ted Chiang Quotes

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• Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we…
• Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible…
• Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.
• Brain damage is never a good idea, no matter what your friends say.
• Women who work with animals hear this all the time: that their love for animals must arise out of a sublimated child-rearing urge. Ana's tired…
• It is a misconception to think that during evolution humans sacrificed physical skill in exchange for intelligence: wielding one's body is a mental activity.
• Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

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