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“The best ship, the best culture, the best knowledge, is the one which allows us to go farther, explore more territories or oceans of reality, and have the least damaging leaks possible.”
“The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.”
“Comprehending and knowing better and deeper are the best guarantees we can have to attain ideas and criteria of our own; i.e. to stop depending on what other people say. In summary, to be freer to ...”
“It is curious that the human mind could blindly accept an infinite speed but had reservations to accept a finite one, simply because it was too large!”
“When we say two bodies 'touch', what we mean (without knowing it) is that both electromagnetic fields are interacting to avoid physical interpenetration and ... that happens well before subatomic p...”
“Besides our eyes, skin and the other senses through which we receive the shadows of the exterior reality, we have a 'mental eye' (intelligence) with which we can perceive reality as it is.”
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“Our inner fire is the spark of hope that drives us through even the darkest times. Do not be so quick to dismiss it.”
“If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?”
“Teaching the layperson (divulgare) is not distorting (tergiversare) the subject, but educating the public; and it is our duty as scientists to educate without distorting the essence of the scientif...”
“I prefer for 'my world' to have the highest certification of being a faithful representation of the exterior world.”
“Love is not a consequence.Love is not a choice.Love is a THIRST!”
“Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.”
“Droplets of yes and no, in an ocean of maybe.”
“He saw a figure in white robes near the bridge entrance and turned the tape over in his hand. He approached the woman and said, his tone respectful, "Your Highness. The transmission we received..."...”
“Hope?" She eyed Cassian dubiously. "Is that the best the Rebel Intelligence can do?" Cassian might as well have shrugged. "Rebellions are built on hope," he said”
“Yeah Sure I rememberMatter of fact it was just last SeptemberShe still calls it the fall to rememberLittle Heather when it all came togetherYou remember the first time you met her?She cried when i...”
“Death is unstoppable. One must face it as a fact of life”
“Don't mind us, we're just spilling our guts. If this is love, I don'twant to be hanging by the neck in front of an audience of Death.”
“The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.”
