“Why does the Universe go to all the trouble of existing?”
– Stephen Hawking
On the Trouble of Existing
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Monthly Archives: August 2016
On Dismissing Gods
“When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”
– Steven H. Roberts
On Relativity
“When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it’s only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity.”
– Albert Einstein
On Western Civilisation
“What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea.”
– Mohandas Gandhi
On Sharing a Horizon
“We all live under the same sky, but we do not all have the same horizon.”
– Konrad Adenauer
On Hopelessness
“There are no hopeless situations there are only people who have grown hopeless about them.”
– Clare Boothe Luce
On the Closed Universe
“The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination, but the combination is locked in the safe.”
– Peter de Vries
On Curing Boredom
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
– Ellen Parr
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