Greg Bear quotes - page 2
The hardest theme in science fiction is that of the alien. The simplest solution of all is in fact quite profound-that the real difficulty lies not in understanding what is alien, but in understanding what is self. We are all aliens to each other, all different and divided. We are even aliens to ourselves at different stages of our lives. Do any of us remember precisely what it was like to be a baby?
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He may not have had time, but even allowing him the time, Vergil simply did not think such things through. Brilliant in the creation, slovenly in the consideration of consequences.
But wasn't that true of every creator?
Didn't anyone who changed things ultimately lead some people-perhaps many people-to death, grief, torment?
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Very evocative. He seems to be confirming what I said last year-that the universe really has no underpinnings, that when a good hypothesis comes along, one that explains the prior events, the underpinnings shape themselves to accommodate and a powerful theory is born.”
"Then there is no ultimate reality?”
"Apparently not. Bad hypotheses, those that don't fit what happen on our level, are rejected by the universe. Good ones, powerful ones, are incorporated.
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I'm going to take you out tonight,” he said. "Another Heisenberg dinner.”
"What's that?”
"Uncertainty,” Edward said crisply. "We know where we are going, but not what we are going to eat. Or vice versa.”
"Sounds wonderful. Which car?”
"The Quantum, of course.”
"Oh, Lord. We just had the speedometer fixed.”
"And the steering went out?
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