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.
“Stephen Hawking threw a party for Time Travellers back in 2009? But only publicised the invitation afterwards!”
― Schrödinger's Dog
― Schrödinger's Dog
“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
“the Antarctic Pipeline—that miracle of twenty-first-century engineering, built to pump fluidised coal from the vast polar deposits to the power plants and factories of the world. In a mood of ecological euphoria, TCC had proposed demolishing the last remaining section of the pipeline and restoring the land to the penguins. Instantly there had been cries of protest from the industrial archaeologists, outraged at such vandalism, and from the naturalists, who pointed out that the penguins simply loved the abandoned pipeline. It had provided housing of a standard they had never before enjoyed, and thus contributed to a population explosion that the killer whales could barely handle.”
― The Fountains of Paradise
― The Fountains of Paradise
“giving up on Indefinite Life Extension and eking out a small hairy lifetime in the Bay Area, seemed to me tantamount to plunging off the Empire State Building with such mass and velocity that the myriad of safety nets would snap beneath you until your skull knew the pavement.”
― Super Sad True Love Story
― Super Sad True Love Story
“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
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