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"It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine."
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"Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe."

"How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?"

"On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe."

"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."

"But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard."

"The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside."

"Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy."
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"In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better."

"I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul."

"There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god."

"While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced."

"The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms."

"We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve."

"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."
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