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"No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail."
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"It's only water," she said."Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said."

"Time is only linear for engineers and referees."

"Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology."

"If you sell, say, two thousand copies, it is the same thing as if you had sold nothing at all because two thousand is too vast-I mean, for the imagination to grasp. While thirty-seven people-perhaps thirty-seven are too many, perhaps seventeen would have been better or even seven-but still thirty-seven are still within the scope of one's imagination."

"If truth is relative, then it's cousin is anarchy."

"Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."

"For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert."

"In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined."

"Success is a relative thing-and the victory of a boy at marbles is equal to the victory of an Octavius at Actium when measured by the scale of cosmic infinity."

"No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail."
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