Sam Bruskin

“As the physicist Stephen Hawking put it, humans are ‘just a chemical scum on the surface of a typical planet that’s in orbit round a typical star on the outskirts of a typical galaxy’. The proviso ‘in the cosmic scheme of things’ is necessary because the chemical scum evidently does have a special significance according to values that it applies to itself, such as moral values. But the Principle says that all such values are themselves anthropocentric: they explain only the behaviour of the scum, which is itself insignificant.”
― David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

“Wel you know 1ce the kids start singing at you thats a cern kynd of track youre on nor there aint too much you can do about it. Making the kids stop singing wont help its too late by then youve jus got to clinch your teef and get on with it.”
― Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker

“Trubba not.”
― Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker

“His Mysterium Cosmographicum is an attempt, really, to reconcile the ancient Platonic dream of the harmony of the spheres with the sixteenth century’s insight that the planets move around the sun.”
― Thomas Hertog, On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory