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“There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
“Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified.
'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.”
― The Palace of Illusions
'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.”
― The Palace of Illusions
“Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
“She who sows vengeance must reap its bloody fruit.”
― The Palace of Illusions
― The Palace of Illusions
“Above us our palace waits, the only one I've ever needed. Its walls are space, its floor is sky, its center everywhere. We rise; the shapes cluster around us in welcome, dissolving and forming again like fireflies in a summer evening.”
― The Palace of Illusions
― The Palace of Illusions
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