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"Human psychology is the most mysterious thing in the world."
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"The Man in the Moon is in fact a record of ancient catastrophes--most of which took place before humans, before mammals, and probably even before life arose on Earth. It is a characteristic conceit of our species to put a human face on random cosmic violence."
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"Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel's great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of hearing? Not at all.-Why then do you try to 'enlarge' your mind? Subtilize it."
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"In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous."
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"I have detected disturbances in the wash.''The wash?''The space-time wash.''Are we talking about some sort of Vogon laundromat, or what are we talking about?''Eddies in the space-time continuum.''Ah...is he. Is he.''What?''Er, who is Eddy, then, exactly?"
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"Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature."
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"The Z-particle Pure energy-no mass at all. It may well be thesmallest building block in nature. Matter is nothing but trapped energy."
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"Science transcends the personal domain of beliefs. You can see the grace of Science in every direction of the human universe."
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"One glance and I knew exactly who and what he was. The classic alpha male, the kind who had spurred evolution forward about five million years ago by nailing every female in sight. They charmed, seduced, and behaved like bastards, and yet women were biologically incapable of resisting their magic DNA."
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"Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system."
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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
Reason
"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."
Computer
"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."
Science
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
Life
"Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."
Being
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"
Funny
"To [the government] it didn't matter what happened to the American people as long as america in the abstract was kept strong."
Politics
"John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war."
War
"It is not only the living who are killed in war."
War
"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value."
Thought
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