Mysteries that are destroyed by measurement were never truly mysterious; only our ignorance made them seem so. They are like whodunits after you know who did it. Does anyone reread a murder mystery? Whereas the cosmos has been mysterious to
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“Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new.”
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“He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.”
― Pattern Recognition
― Pattern Recognition

“It is the nature of the idea to be communicated, written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass it craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows stronger from being stepped on.”
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“So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .”
― The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
― The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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