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“Another day, another staff meeting. Who would have thought saving the world could be so boring?” (Project Hail Mary Quotes)
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“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. ”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“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.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“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.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“Discrepancy is science. You think about discrepancy. Make theory. You is science human.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“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?”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“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?”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“Evolution can be insanely effective when you leave it alone for a few billion years.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“Good. Proud. I am scary space monster. You are leaky space blob.” He points to the breeder tanks. “Check tanks!”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“Grumpy. Angry. Stupid. How long since last sleep, question?”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“Human beings have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“Human brains are amazing things. We can get used to just about anything.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“Humanity’s first miscommunication with an intelligent alien race. Glad I could be a part of it.” (Project Hail Mary Quotes)
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“I’m doing a lot of things for the first time in human history out here and there’s a lot of stuff that needs naming. Just be glad I don’t name stuff after myself.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“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.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“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.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“Intelligence evolves to gives us an advantage over the other animals on our planet. But evolution is lazy. Once a problem is solved, the trait stops evolving.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“It’s a simple idea, but also stupid. Thing is, when stupid ideas work, they become genius ideas. We’ll see which way this one falls.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“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.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“I’ve gone from “sole-surviving space explorer” to “guy with a wacky new roommate.” It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“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.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“Language is kind of an exponential system. The more words you know, the easier it is to describe new ones.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“Light is a funny thing. Its wavelength defines what it can and can’t interact with. Anything smaller than the wavelength is functionally nonexistent to that photon. That’s why there’s a mesh over the window of a microwave. The holes in the mesh are too small for microwaves to pass through. But visible light, with a much shorter wavelength, can go through freely. So you get to watch your food cook without melting your face off.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“Math is not thinking. Math is procedure. Memory is not thinking. Memory is storage. Thinking is thinking. Problem, solution.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“No one ever talks about the really hard parts of first contact with intelligent alien life: pronouns. I’m going to go with “he” for now, because it just seems rude to call a thinking being “it.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“Normally if you asked a space agency to send a probe to Venus in under a year, they’d laugh in your face. But it’s amazing what you can do with an unlimited budget.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“Once again I’m struck by melancholy. I want to spend the rest of my life studying Eridian biology! But I have to save humanity first. Stupid humanity. Getting in the way of my hobbies.” (Project Hail Mary Quotes)
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“People always assumed our first contact with alien life – if any existed – would be little green men in UFOs. We never considered the idea of a simple, unintelligent species.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“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.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“Say what you will about the Russians, they know how to keep a secret.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“Sometimes, the stuff we all hate ends up being the only way to do things.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“That’s pretty much a rule in electronics: You never get diodes right on the first try.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“The hardest part about working with aliens and saving humanity from extinction is constantly having to come up with names for stuff.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“There are a bunch of things I want to do, but I need to take it slow. I can’t risk another “stupid day” like yesterday. I’m smart enough now to know I’m stupid. That’s progress.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“There is no “stationary” in a solar system. You’re always moving around something.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“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.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“We all have to make sacrifices. If I have to be the world’s whipping boy to secure our salvation, then that’s my sacrifice to make.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“We’re as smart as evolution made us. So we’re the minimum intelligence needed to ensure we can dominate our planets.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“What’s the point of even having a world if you’re not going to pass it on to the next generation?”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
“When the alternative is death to your entire species, things are very easy. No moral dilemmas, no weighing what’s best for whom.”
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
