Ted Chiang famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.
-- Ted Chiang

#Past #Atonement #Enough
Physics admits of a lovely unification, not just at the level of fundamental forces, but when considering its extent and implications. Classifications like "optics" or "thermodynamics" are just straitjackets, preventing physicists from seeing countless intersections.
-- Ted Chiang

#Lovely #Fundamentals #Levels
Brain damage is never a good idea, no matter what your friends say.
-- Ted Chiang

#Ideas #Brain #Matter
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 of the stereotype. She likes children just fine, but they're not the standard against which all other accomplishments should be measured. Caring for animals is worthwhile in and of itself, a vocation that need offer no apologies.
-- Ted Chiang

#Children #Tired #Caring
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

#Thinking #Skills #Body
Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.
-- Ted Chiang

#Inspirational #Leadership #Wisdom
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 know the things that we think we know.
-- Ted Chiang

#Philosophical #Mean #Reality
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 for me to know the future. Conversely, now that I know the future, I would never act contrary to that future, including telling others what I know: those who know the future don't talk about it. Those who've read the Book of Ages never admit to it.
-- Ted Chiang

#Book #Exercise #Choices
Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so.
-- Ted Chiang

#Able #Existence #Rejoice

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.
I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute
How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."
What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as the gospel what is essentially a theory of the atonement, and you say, If you accept this theory of the atonement, your sins are forgiven, and when you die you will be received into heaven, there is no basis for discipleship.
If you feel guilty or quietly ashamed, seek the power of the Atonement.
Even with the trials of life, because of the Savior's Atonement and his grace, righteous living will be rewarded with personal peace.
When the journey's over/There'll be time enough to sleep.
The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.
The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of family encouragement - not just for me, but for everyone.

Ted Chiang famous quotes

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