Holy fuck.
Read more Ian Donnelly QuotesFrom: Arrival
"Language is the foundation of civilization. It is the glue that holds a people together. It is the first weapon drawn in a conflict."
Well, the cornerstone of civilization isn't language, it's science.
Louise Banks: The weapon is their language. They gave it all to us. Do you understand what that means?Colonel Weber: So we can learn heptapod. If we survive.Louise Banks: If you learn it, when you really learn it, you begin to perceive time the way that they do. So you can see what's to come. But time, it isn't the same for them. It's non-linear.
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