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Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.


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The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures.

The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures.



Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.

Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.



The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe as a mathematical thinker.

The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe as a mathematical thinker.



To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.



...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.



All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.

All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.



The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.

The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.



The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train.

The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train.



Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.



One must stand stiller than still. On reverse time travel.

One must stand stiller than still. On reverse time travel.





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Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all.

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Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.




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