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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
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After leaving the museum I walked across the street, through the park, and up the hill to Flamsteed House, the observatory designed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1675. King Charles II had ordered the observatory to be built to improve marine
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“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
― Gravity’s Rainbow
― Gravity’s Rainbow
“The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.”
― A Man Without a Country
― A Man Without a Country
“Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.”
― The Princess Bride
― The Princess Bride
“Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism and theosophy to the Christian system or that of Kant, and I have always felt that they were much too simple. I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth that are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy. That is the reason why I have no philosophy myself, and must be my excuse for dreaming.”
― Possible Worlds
― Possible Worlds
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