Ed Quotes

“You are not alone. Nor are you rare, nor even unusual; you're so common as to be insignificant. You are small, weak, and stupid. Your lives are meaningless and shorter than an eyeblink. You have achieved nothing. On the universal scale you are nothing. This much we share already. Now let us share the rest.”
― qntm, Ed

“Ed grins the enthusiastic grin of the irretrievably insane.”
― qntm, Ed

“Well, there's one I thought of. Nothing passes through in the opposite direction, right? Including gravitons. Gravity can't penetrate the wormhole. It's not very obvious when the ring is vertical, but..." Ed manipulates a remote control and turns the hoop horizontally, so the wormhole leads downwards. "This way, it's easier to see. The way to think about it is as if the whole Earth was glowing white, and the ring is your only shadow. So you can see there's a small cone-shaped area above the wormhole which is in gravity shadow. Zero gravity.”
― qntm, Ed

“Well, there's nowhere else to explore, right?" "Sheesh. Don't put it like that. That's like saying, 'Right! After hundreds of years of diligent exploration, we microscopic bacteria have carefully mapped every nook and cranny of our grain of sand.”
― qntm, Ed

“I've seen too many movies to give up now.”
― qntm, Ed

“You always said if it was possible to destroy the universe then somebody would have destroyed it by now.”
― qntm, Ed