Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 20 quotes that I liked and saved while reading Project Hail Mary book by Andy Weir. I hope you will like them too.
By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
Project Hail Mary Quotes
- Thing is, nothing affects gravity. You can’t increase or decrease it. Earth’s gravity is 9.8 meters per second per second. Period. And I’m experiencing more than that. There’s only one possible explanation. I’m not on Earth.
- What’s the point of even having a world if you’re not going to pass it on to the next generation?
- Kids are smarter than most people think. And they can tell when a teacher actually cares about them as opposed to when they’re just going through the motions.
- If I had a nickel for every time I wanted to smack a kid’s parents for not teaching them even the most basic things … well … I’d have enough nickels to put in a sock and smack those parents with it.
- Evolution can be insanely effective when you leave it alone for a few billion years.
- Human brains are amazing things. We can get used to just about anything.
- Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.
- Language is kind of an exponential system. The more words you know, the easier it is to describe new ones.
- Broadly speaking, the human brain is a collection of software hacks compiled into a single, somehow-functional unit. Each “feature” was added as a random mutation that solved some specific problem to increase our odds of survival. In short, the human brain is a mess. Everything about evolution is messy.
- Sometimes, the stuff we all hate ends up being the only way to do things.
- When the alternative is death to your entire species, things are very easy. No moral dilemmas, no weighing what’s best for whom.
- Astronauts are brave people, willing to risk their life for science. Many of them are willing to give their life for humanity. I admire them.
- Do you believe in God? I know it’s a personal question. I do. And I think He was pretty awesome to make relativity a thing, don’t you? The faster you go, the less time you experience. It’s like He’s inviting us to explore the universe, you know?
- I’m lucky to be alive. There’s no other way to put it. Anything I do beyond that moment is a gift from the universe to me.
- Math is not thinking. Math is procedure. Memory is not thinking. Memory is storage. Thinking is thinking. Problem, solution.
- Any planet that has life will have it everywhere. That’s my theory, at least. Evolution is extremely good at filling every nook in the ecosystem.
- Say what you will about the Russians, they know how to keep a secret.
- There is no “stationary” in a solar system. You’re always moving around something.
- It’s a weird feeling, scientific breakthroughs. There’s no Eureka moment. Just a slow, steady progression toward a goal. But man, when you get to that goal it feels good.
- People nowadays … they have no idea how good they have it. The past was unrelenting misery for most people. And the further back in time you go, the worse it was.