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  1. James S.A. Corey _ The Vital Abyss

    Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but it is the mother of any number of other things as well: sacrifice and monstrosity and metamorphosis. Necessity is the mother of all necessary things, to coin a tautology.
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  2. James S.A. Corey _ The Vital Abyss

    The idea that animal suffering is less important than human suffering is a religious one. It assumes a special creation, and that we-you and I-are different in kind than other animals. We are morally separate from rats or horses or chimps, not based on any particular physical difference between us, but just because we claim that we're sacred by our nature and have dominion over them. It's a story we tell that lets us do what we do. Consider the question without that filter, and it looks very different.
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  3. James S.A. Corey _ The Vital Abyss

    What astounded me was that the cutting edge of human knowledge was so close. Before I educated myself, I assumed that there was a great depth of science, that every question of importance had been cataloged, studied, that all the answers were there, if only someone could query the datasets the right way. And for some things, that was true.
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  4. James S.A. Corey _ The Vital Abyss

    Take a bar of metal and put a single notch in it. The two lengths thus defined have a relationship that can be expressed as the ratio between them. In theory, therefore, any rational number can be expressed with a single mark on a bar of metal. Using a simple alphabetic code, a mark that calculated to a ratio of .1215225 could be read as 12-15-22-5, or "l-o-v-e." The complete plays of Shakespeare could be written in a single mark, if it were possible to measure accurately enough."
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