Chapter 285: In Due Course

Two things are infinite: the universe

and human stupidity; and I'm

not sure about the universe.

Albert Einstein

Time is a drug.

Too much of it kills you.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

Heard melodies are sweet,

but those unheard, are sweeter.

John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Um

and Other Poems

If I have seen further it is

by standing on the shoulder of Giants.

Isaac Newton, The Correspondence

of Isaac Newton

It would be possible to describe everything

scientifically, but it would be without

meaning, as if you have described a

Beethoven symphony as a variation

of wave pressure.

Albert Einstein

For me, 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:

Science as a Candle in the Dark

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give

some practical results, but that's

not why we do it.

Richard P. Feynman

I believe there is another world

waitimg for us. A better world.

And I'll be waiting for you there.

David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

In my opinion, we don't devote

nearly enough scientific research

to finding a cure for jerks.

Bill Watterson

Do you know what we call opinion

in the absence of evidence?

We call it prejudice.

Michael Crichton, State of Fear

We are an impossibility

in an impossible universe.

Ray Bradbury

For, after all, how do we know that

two and two make four? Or that the force

of gravity works? Or that the past is

unchangeable? If both the past and the

external world exist only in the mind,

and if the mind itself is 

controllable--what then?

George Orwell, 1984

Science investigates; religion interprets.

Science gives man knowledge, which is power;

religion gives man wisdom, which is control;

science deals mainly with facts;

religion deals mainly with values.

The two are not rivals.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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