Quote by Ted Chiang Download Open image ““The familiar was far away, while the bizarre was close at hand.”” — Ted Chiang ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“There aren’t weird things; there are only familiar and unfamiliar things!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Creativity. Taking something enormously strange and somehow making it strangely familiar.” — Jim Lewis Copy Share Image
“few things are more familiar, he supposed, than finding oneself a stranger.” — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“The more familiar that a place becomes, the more mysterious it becomes, as well, if you are alert to the truth of things.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“We become so used to the familiar that we begin to doubt the unfamiliar, until our eyes are opened and we see .” — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“The most alarming moments of anatomy are not the bizarre, the unknown. They are the familiar.” — Christine Montross Copy Share Image
“It was as though someone, somewhere, were dreaming this and he had crossed into it without permission. Everything both familiar and foreign.” — Paul Yoon Copy Share Image
“The physical universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
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… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
“Perhaps men were not meant to live in such a place. If their own natures restrained them from approaching heaven too closely, then men… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
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. — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
“And then there will be the times when I see you laughing. Like the time you’ll be playing with the neighbor’s puppy, poking your… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
“When Arecibo is not listening to anything else, it hears the voice of creation.” — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
“the ray of light has to know where it will ultimately end up before it can choose the direction to begin moving” — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
“Yet through their endeavor, men would glimpse the unimaginable artistry of Yahweh's work, in seeing how ingeniously the world had been constructed. By this… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
“I would have liked to experience more of the heptapods' worldview, to feel the way they feel. Then, perhaps I could immerse myself fully… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
