Cliff Hays > Cliff's Quotes

“...we are the product of this universe and I think it can be argued that the entire cosmic code is imprinted in us. Just as our genes carry the memory of our biological ancestors, our logic carries the memory of our cosmological ancestry. We are not just imposing human-centric notions on a cosmos independent of us. We are progeny of this cosmos and our ability to understand it is an inheritance.”
― Janna Levin, How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space

“Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida”
― Susan Orlean, The Orchid Thief

“A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is nonscientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.”
― Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

“Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.”
― Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays

“Here the clouds constantly adjusted like obedient phantoms, so that shadows never lengthened or shortened. At any point in space, Limbo never became any darker or lighter than the moment before.”
― L.E. Henderson, Thief of Hades

“You've never had wok-seared spicy broccoli until you've had takeout trans-temporal wok-seared spicy broccoli delivered by a copy of yourself.”
― Magnus Von Black, The Song and the Pendant

“Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.”
― Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

“I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place, since any God worth believing in would prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.”
― Alan Dershowitz, Letters to a Young Lawyer

“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”
― Lao Tzu

“There is truth and there are lies, and art always tells the truth, even when it's lying.”
― Charlie Kaufman, Being John Malkovich