# Quote — Poul Anderson, The Boat of a Million Years

> Before the spirit could seek into it, the mind must. She studied the tensor equations as once she studied the sutras, she meditated upon the koans of science, and at last she began to feel her oneness with all that was, and in the vision find peace.

- Author: [Poul Anderson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson.md)
- Book: [The Boat of a Million Years](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-boat-of-a-million-years.md)
- Page: 449
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Poul_Anderson#The_Boat_of_a_Million_Years_(1989)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-boat-of-a-million-years/before-the-spirit

## More from this book

> It would annoy me less that we’re heading into a new puritanical era if the puritanism concerned itself about things that matter.

p. 330 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-boat-of-a-million-years/it-would-annoy.md)

> Are you happy?
>
> Your question is meaningless. I am occupied. I participate in operations, I am one with the accomplishments.

p. 426 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-boat-of-a-million-years/are-you-happy.md)

> I have learned much in two thousand years, but nothing about any gods, except that they too, arise, change, age, and die. Whatever there is beyond the universe, if anything, I doubt it concerns itself with us.

p. 140 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/poul-anderson/the-boat-of-a-million-years/i-have-learned.md)