Pi in the Sky Quotes

“Never turn your back on the seventh son of the Supreme Overlord of the Universe...unless you want a bucket of water thrown on your head.”
― Wendy Mass, Pi in the Sky

“No matter how many times I walk this same path, I never get bored of it. The central Realms—home to most of the residents and buildings—are set up like a grid, with walking paths crisscrossing each other at even intervals. On either side of the paths trees loom high and streams weave their way between them. When I was younger, before I started delivering the pies, I could usually be found in one of the distant fields with Kal or Bren, watching the clouds change color. The sky here is without color, but the clouds more than make up for it. I learned in school that on the planets, clouds and trees and water are solid objects, providing some sort of purpose in nature. In The Realms, they are more like suggestions of such things, until someone wants to use them. A lake becomes a lake when someone wants to go fishing. A flower becomes a flower when someone wants to water it, or admire it, or put it in a vase. Even then it’s not a “real” flower, like the type that grows in the soil of many of the terrestrial planets. But that doesn’t make it any less beautiful.”
― Wendy Mass, Pi in the Sky

“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. —Lawrence M. Krauss, physicist”
― Wendy Mass, Pi in the Sky

“She can’t see it, Joss. We’re at the far end of the electromagnetic spectrum here, surrounded by gamma rays. I know school isn’t your favorite thing, but honestly, don’t you pay attention at all?”
― Wendy Mass, Pi in the Sky

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. —Albert Einstein, physicist”
― Wendy Mass, Pi in the Sky

“Never turn your back on the seventh son of the Supreme Overlord of the Universe… unless you want a bucket of water thrown on your head.”
― Wendy Mass, Pi in the Sky

“It took me being sucked into another universe in order for your dad to say something nice to me!”
― Wendy Mass, Pi in the Sky

“We”
― Wendy Mass, Pi in the Sky

“Whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. —Charles Darwin, naturalist”
― Wendy Mass, Pi in the Sky

“being the patient person that I am, I can wait to learn the answers. As long as I don’t have to wait too long.”
― Wendy Mass, Pi in the Sky

“I catch something like, take forty-two to the twentieth power, multiply by pi cubed, divide something, add something else, and then do a whole bunch of other things I have no hope of understanding.”
― Wendy Mass, Pi in the Sky

“take the dust and gas left over, allow it to clump together for about two hundred million years, until it makes one giant rock with an iron core. Then hurl another really big rock into your new planet so the pieces can fly off to form the moon. Without the moon, Earth would be unstable and its climates too severe for any complex life to survive. And make sure to tilt your planet’s axis exactly twenty-three and a half degrees so you’ll get the seasons.” “Seasons, got it. What’s next?” Annika prompts. He shakes his head at her, clearly amused by her unwillingness to give up, but continues. “You’ll need movable tectonic plates, of course, to keep a steady supply of nutrients at the surface. And don’t forget the oceans. You’d have to fill them. Take some water-bearing comets, add some volcanoes, and the atmosphere will start to fill with water vapor. Then here come the rains! And once you have water, and much later breathable oxygen, then—”
― Wendy Mass, Pi in the Sky

“Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out. —Carl Sagan, astronomer and professor”
― Wendy Mass, Pi in the Sky

“If you haven’t found something strange during the day, it hasn’t been much of a day. —John Archibald Wheeler, physicist”
― Wendy Mass, Pi in the Sky

“Boys!” my mother snaps. “How many times have I told you not to tease your brother?” They laugh again. We all know it’s a very high number. “Four billion and three,” Thade replies. No one argues. Thade, the oldest, is never wrong. His calculations are always perfect. That’s why it’s his job to make sure all the planets stay in orbit around their suns. “Exactly,” Mom says. “You think you’d learn by now.”
― Wendy Mass, Pi in the Sky

“I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel. —E. B. White,”
― Wendy Mass, Pi in the Sky

“But I thought you said it was too late, that the whole solar system is completely gone?” “Oh, it is. No trace that it ever existed.”
― Wendy Mass, Pi in the Sky