“Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.”
― The Autobiography of Mark Twain
― The Autobiography of Mark Twain
“The law of conservation of energy, reborn as the law of conservation of mass/energy, has established itself as one of the few unshakable theoretical guideposts in the wilderness of the world of our sense experiences. In scope and generality it surpasses Newton's laws of motion, Maxwell's equations for electricity and magnetism, and even Einstein's potent little E=mc². It comes as close to an absolute truth as our uncertain age will permit.”
― Warmth Disperses and Time Passes: The History of Heat (Modern Library
― Warmth Disperses and Time Passes: The History of Heat (Modern Library
“It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.”
― Congo
― Congo
“The United States tried, by depressing the clutch of diplomacy and downshifting the gearshift lever of rhetoric, to remain neutral, but it became increasingly obvious that the nation was going to get into a war, especially since it was almost 1812.”
― Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States
― Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States
“The rock, for its part, is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of its lifespan. To it, we are like flashes in the dark.”
― The Andromeda Strain
― The Andromeda Strain
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