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The universe never did make sense. I suspect that it was built on

The universe never did make sense. I suspect that it was built on a government contract. – Robert A. Heinlein

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Everything youve learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. Theres not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. – Richard Buckminster Fuller

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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire — in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom? – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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If thats how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that whats left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning). – Barbara Ehrenreich

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From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an indifferent Universe) and one of intimacy (a benevolent Universe) means the difference between a general habit of wariness and one of trust. – William James

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