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

"It's only water," she said."Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said."

"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."

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

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

"So what I'm saying is why don't we think about changing Schrodinger's equation at some level when masses become too big at the level that you might have to worry about Einstein's general relativity."

"For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert."
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"Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it."

"I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth, and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics."

"I'm sure it's not all hot buttered crumpets out there in the breathing world of asphalt and heartbeats."

"Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out."

"For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas."

"What is without dispute...is that the readers need [the BookWorld] just as much as we need them-to bring order to their apparent chaos, if nothing else."

"She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock Holmes wore a deerstalker and smoked a ridiculously large pipe. The problem wasn't just confined to the classics. Harry Potter was seriously pissed off that he'd have to spend the rest of life looking like Daniel Radcliffe."

"I liked him, but since his particular field of interest was Remote Suggestion--the skill of projecting thoughts into people's heads from a distance--I didn't know whether I actually liked him or he was just suggesting I like him, which was both creepy and unethical. In fact, the whole Remote Suggestion or "seeding" idea had been banned once it was discovered to be the key ingredient in promoting talent less boy bands, which had until then been something of a mystery."
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