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Nowadays only cosmologists and particle physicists are allowed to invent new kinds of matter when they want to explain why their theories totally fail to match observed reality.
“Repent? Me? Cheek! I can’t start repenting at my time of life. I’d never get any work done. Anyway,’ she added, ‘I ain’t sorry for most of it.”
― Carpe Jugulum
― Carpe Jugulum
“Men have an extraordinary, and perhaps fortunate, ability to tune out of their consciousness the most awesome future possibilities. The Roman farmer, ploughing the slopes of Vesuvius, gave no thought to the mountain smoking overhead. Half the twentieth century lived with the Hydrogen Bomb—”
― The Fountains of Paradise
― The Fountains of Paradise
“generally credited with the famous aphorism “Belief in God is apparently a psychological artefact of mammalian reproduction”. But what if this is true? It is totally irrelevant to the question of God’s actual existence, as I shall now proceed to demonstrate. … Swami Krisnamurthi (Dr. Choam Goldberg)”
― The Fountains of Paradise
― The Fountains of Paradise
“Our deadliest susceptibility is conformity, and our deadliest virtue is putting up with things as they are.”
― Trouble with Lichen
― Trouble with Lichen
“Judging from the past, we may safely infer that no one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity. And of the species now living very few will transmit progeny of any kind to a far distant futurity.’ - Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
By Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation Of
Favoured Race In The Struggle For Life (1859)”
― Evolution
By Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation Of
Favoured Race In The Struggle For Life (1859)”
― Evolution
Wei’s 2025 Year in Books
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