The physical universe was a language with a perfectly ambiguous grammar. Every physical event was an utterance that could be parsed in two entirely different ways, one casual and the other teleological, both valid, neither one disqualifiable no matter how much context was available.
About This Quote
About Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others.
Themes
- Time — Reflections on the passage of time and how we spend it