Chapter 1. What is the Science of Things? Who are Union 5-3992 and International 4-8818? Why does International say, "May the Council have mercy upon both of our hearts"?

1) The "Science of Things" was everything that made up the world and made it work.

"But we loved the Science of Things. We wished to know. We wished to know about all the things which make the earth around us. We asked so many questions that the Teachers forbade it."

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2) Union 5-3993 is "a pale boy with only half a brain."

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