Buridan’s donkey is standing halfway between a pile of hay and a bucket of water. It keeps looking left and right, trying to decide between hay and water. Unable to decide, it eventually dies of hunger and thirst.
“We long for timelessness, we endure the passing of time: we suffer time. Time is suffering.”
― The Order of Time
― The Order of Time
“I told NASA what I did. Our (paraphrased) conversation was: Me: “I took it apart, found the problem, and fixed it.” NASA: “Dick.”
― The Martian
― The Martian
“But the world is a quantum one, and gelatinous spacetime is also an approximation.”
― The Order of Time
― The Order of Time
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