“Grow up. Grow up. Time to grow up. You’re here now. We’re working on physics here, not religion. Drop the mysticism and grow up.”

—  Ursula K. Le Guin, Hainish Cycle

Source: Hainish Cycle, (1974), Chapter 4 (p. 104)

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