And ... and what is civilisation if it isn't people talking to each other over a goddamned beer?
Too many dots," Miller said. "Not enough lines.
Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas.
Optimism expressed as conservation of delta V.
Science had given mankind many gifts, and she valued it. But the one important thing it had taken away was the value of subjective, personal experience. That had been replaced with the idea that only measurable and testable concepts had value. But humans didn't work that way.
The problem with living with miracles was that they made everything seem plausible.