“We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present...” — Steven Pinker Quote

“We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling in the forest with no one to hear them.”

“Roads, better harnesses for horses, time-keeping devices, financial instruments like a currency that was recognized everywhere in the kingdom, enforceable contracts - all of this made commerce more appealing than plunder.”

“In any dispute, each side thinks it's in the right and the other side is demons.”

“I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world.”

“My thesis project was to identify quasars, which are very distant, very energetic objects and still quite mysterious.”

“I think the idea of a distant, far off dystopia, where the world is completely different from what we have now, is good, but it's been done. Especially in YA movies.”