“Darvin listened to the hymn with a mixture of enjoyment of its beauty and disdain of its content.”

— Ken MacLeod , book Learning the World

Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 16 “The Anomalies Room” (p. 273)

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Scottish science fiction writer 1954

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