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We're not responsible, he thought. This planet is a temporary affair. It's whizzing with all kinds of other ones, a whole range of planetary stuff, toward a star in the Milky Way. On that kind of a planet we're not responsible, he thought. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

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... respecto al origen del mundo, si es que lo tuvo, no nos queda más remedio que aceptar que nunca sabremos cómo ocurrió y que Dios es una explicación necia que no explica nada pues es tan difícil imaginar la eternidad suya como la de la materia. Dios es la vuelta del bobo: lo postulamos para entender cuanto no entendemos, pero sin entenderlo a Él. ↗

— Fernando Vallejo

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When you think about it, the Big Bang's a big like school, isn't it? ... Well, I mean to say, one day we'll all leave here and become scientists and bank clerks and driving instructors and hotel managers -- the fabric of society, so to speak. But in the meantime, that fabric, that is to say, us, the future, is crowded into one tiny little point where none of the laws of society applies, viz., this school. -Ruprecht ↗

— Paul Murray

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Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations. ↗

— John Twelve Hawks

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The world is round. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

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Never tell a computer to forget it. ↗

— Larry Niven

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Ever since I could remember, She was all that mattered. ↗

— James J. Caterino

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As for you Rose Tyler you gave up on me! That's rude. Is all I am rude and not ginger?" The Doctor ↗

— Grant Battersby

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Mathematics provides a framework for dealing precisely with notions of 'what is.' Computation provides a framework for dealing precisely with notions of 'how to' . ↗

— Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman

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Politics is for the moment and equation is for eternity. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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