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“The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish.”
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“How could you,' Mackey asked, 'how could you, a mathematician, a man devoted to reason and logical proof. . . how could you believe that extra terrestrials are sending you messages? How could you believe that you are being recruited by aliens from outer space to save the world? How could you . . .?' "Nash looked up at last and fixed Mackey with an unblinking stare as cool and dispassionate as that of any bird or snake. 'Because,' Nash said slowly in his soft, reasonable southern drawl, as if talking to himself,'the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously.”
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“Three stages of truth for scientists:
(1) It's not true.
(2) If it is true, it's not very important.
(3) We knew it all along.”
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(1) It's not true.
(2) If it is true, it's not very important.
(3) We knew it all along.”
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“Is nature a gigantic cat? If so, who strokes its back?”
― Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
― Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
“Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death.”
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