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Book cover for On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
The anthropic principle is a counsel of despair, he wrote, my bemusement mounting in sync with his clicking. It is a negation of our hopes of understanding the underlying order of the universe, on the basis of science. Well, this was ...more
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W. Somerset Maugham
“Only a mediocre person is always at his best. ”
W. Somerset Maugham

Dorothy Parker
“By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady make note of this --
One of you is lying.”
Dorothy Parker

W. Somerset Maugham
“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.”
W. Somerset Maugham

Upton Sinclair
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

Thomas Szasz
“When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him..”
Thomas Stephen Szasz

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