“Going outside is highly overrated.”
Source: Ready Player One
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Science and Spirit interview (2004)
Context: All life has a kind of seamlessness. All creatures have to be aware of their environment, and there has been an evolution of the capacities needed for detecting increasingly complex stimuli. I have no problem calling this "meaning," since all creatures pick out meaningful facets of their environment. For the first creatures, these facets were physical and mediated by receptor proteins. Sperm and eggs find each other by protein shapes; photosynthetic bacteria find light by protein shapes. The impetus to figure out what's going on is still very much programmed into our highly complex brains.
Quoted in: Richard Roud, Godard, introduction (1967, repr. 1970).
“If we are growing we are always going to be outside our
comfort zone.”
“I am just going outside. I may be some time.”
On Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Antarctic expedition, while suffering from frostbite and sheltering from a blizzard, Oates felt he was decreasing his companions' chances of survival. Oates voluntarily left the tent; it was his 32nd birthday. He was never seen again.
Quoted in R. F. Scott's diary, published as Scott's Last Expedition, ch.20
Variant: I am just going outside and may be some time.
From interview with Komal Nahta