Join Notes

A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .

I have no guarantee that there will ever be word from home. Three centuries of silence says there won’t be, and that I am a remnant of a culture whose second flowering into space, that seemed unstoppable and glorious, was actually just brief and doomed. I am more a relic worthy of study than those I was placed to observe.

Elder Race

Adrian Tchaikovsky

Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.

Walden

Henry David Thoreau

Columbus stuck to this error for the rest of his life. The idea that he had discovered a completely unknown continent was inconceivable for him and for many of his generation.

Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari

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