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• We have reached an informational threshold which can only be crossed by harnessing the speed of light directly.
  The quickest computations require the fastest possible particles moving along the shortest paths....
• A brave little theory, and actually quite coherent for a system of five or seven dimensions--if only we lived in one.
  -- Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "Now We Are Alone...
• Time travel in the classic sense has no place in rational theory, but temporal distortion does exist on the quantum level, and more importantly it can be controlled.
  -- Academician Prokhor Zakharov "For I Have Tasted The Frui...
• The first living thing to go through the device was a small white rat.
  I still have him, in fact. As you can see, the damage was not so great as they say....
• Have you ever wondered why clouds behave in such familiar ways when each specimen is so unique?
  Or why the energy exchange market is so unpredictable?...
• To map the very stuff of life; to look into the genetic mirror and watch a million generations march past.
  That, friends, is both our curse and our proudest achievement....
• Remember, genes are NOT blueprints. This means you can't, for example, insert "the genes for an elephant's trunk" into a giraffe and get a giraffe with a trunk.
  There -are- no genes for trunks. What you CAN do with genes is chemistry, since DNA codes for chemicals....
• There are two kinds of scientific progress: the methodical experimentation and categorization which gradually extend the boundaries of knowledge
  and the revolutionary leap of genius which redefines and transcends those boundaries....
• The substructure of the universe regresses infinitely towards smaller and smaller components.
  Behind atoms we find electrons, and behind electrons quarks....