“Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.” — Daniel H. Wilson, Robogenesis
Tag: universe
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“The human brain— that incredible three‐pound package of tissue that can imagine the farthest reaches of the universe and the ultimate core of the atom but cannot fathom its own functioning.” — Harold M. Schmeck, Jr., “Brain Signals in Test Foretell Action,” The New York Times (1971-02-13)
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“It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
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“What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove’s difference and the universe can be on into a whole ‘nother song.” — Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice
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“This universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.” — John Haynes Holmes, “Is the Universe Friendly?” The Sensible Man’s View of Religion
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“The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred-billion light years across.” — Marian Diamond, Impossibility
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“The universe is not laughing at us. It doesn’t even know we exist.” — Seth Godin, Sharpening failure
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“Why borrow trouble when the universe gives so much of it away free?” — Rosemary Edghill, The Sword of Maiden’s Tears
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“Our own distinction of right and wrong is founded too much upon the immediate convenience of the community, and does not inquire sufficiently deeply into the ultimate effect.” — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Stark Munro Letters
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