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"At the end of all spiritual paths, there lies only a cold graveyard; the path of science is the only path that may give you something better than this!"

"There are stars in the night sky that look brighter than the others, and when you look at them through a telescope you realize you are looking at twins. The two stars rotate around each other, sometimes taking nearly a hundred years to do it. They create so much gravitational pull there's no room around for anything else. You might see a blue star, for example, and realize only later that it has a white dwarf as a companion - that first one shines so bright, by the time you notice the second one, it's too late."

"No definite sciencewithout trial & error."

"Science is knowledge meeting humility meeting curiosity: ever-evolving, always learning. Atheism is often but knowledge meeting arrogance: a masquerade under the wing of the beauty of science. Religion is infamously a weight under the one wing; then under the other is atheism, the championed masquerade."

"The ratio of feed to flesh in chicken, the most efficient animal by this measure, is two pounds of corn to one of meat, which is why chicken costs less than beef."

"Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination."

"A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation."
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"That's the fashion. Fast as the speed of light, they say. Ha! It's got no soul, sir, no heart."


"He stared at his feet. "I'm still very ignorant, he said, "but at least I'm ignorant about really important things."


"Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed the sea. It was big and it was out there, and sometimes it was an invigorating thing to dip a toe into, but you couldn't live in it all the time. Besides, it always made his skin wrinkle."


"Ye mustn't be afraid to ask for help. Pride is a good thing, my girl, but it will kill you in time."


"Why are our people going out there, said Mr. Boggis of the Thieves' Guild.Because they are showing a brisk pioneering spirit and seeking wealth and additional wealth I na new land, said Lord Vetinari."What's in it for the Klatchians? said Lord Downey."Oh, they've gone out there because they are a bunch of unprincipled opportunists always ready to grab something for northern, said Lord Vetinari."A mastery summation, if I may say so, my lord, said Mr. Burleigh. The Patrician looked down again at his notes. "Oh, I do beg your pardon, I seem to have read those last to sentences in the wrong order."


"A stink. A stench. A foulness in her mind, dreadful and unforgiving. A compost of horrible ideas and rotted thoughts that made her want to take our her brain and wash it."


"Mums are mums, lance-constable. They don't like to see men managing by themselves, in case that sort of thing catches on."
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