Spinoza saw... that if a falling stone could reason, it would think, "I want to fall at the rate of thirty-two feet per second."


"The Android and the Human" (1972), reprinted in The Dark-Haired Girl (1988) and in The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick (1995), ed. Lawrence Sutin

Philip K. Dick Quotes

Spinoza saw... that if a falling stone could reason, it would think, I want to fall at the rate of thirty-two feet per second.

Spinoza saw... that if a falling stone could reason, it would think, I want to fall at the rate of thirty-two feet per second.

Spinoza saw... that if a falling stone could reason, it would think, I want to fall at the rate of thirty-two feet per second.

Spinoza saw... that if a falling stone could reason, it would think, I want to fall at the rate of thirty-two feet per second.