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“The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.”
― Kurt Gödel

“Books remember all the things you cannot contain.”
― Elizabeth McCracken, The Giant's House

“At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Doesn’t every story change something?”
― Cary Fagan, A Fast Horse Never Brings Good News