“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.”
― Story People
― Story People
“Only time(whatever that may be) will tell.”
― A Brief History of Time
― A Brief History of Time
“This means it will take about a thousand million million million million years for the earth to run into the sun, so there’s no immediate cause for worry!”
― A Brief History of Time
― A Brief History of Time
“A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At teh end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever, " said the old lady. "But it turtles all the way down!”
― A Brief History of Time
― A Brief History of Time
“The universe doesn't allow perfection.”
― A Brief History of Time
― A Brief History of Time
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