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• 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....
• Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me.
  We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts....
• 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...
• Without the faculty of forgetting our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment, still less to live through it.
  -- E.M. Ciora...
• Look! Before our very eyes, the future is becoming the past.
• Fate chooses our relationships; we choose our friends.
• We made civilisation to impress our girl friends.