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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Everything you've 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. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.: E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970)
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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.: Steven Weinberg (1933 - )
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When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.: Bernard Bailey
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If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
Humor is just another defense against the universe.: Mel Brooks (1926 - )
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Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.: Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944)
- More quotations on: [Physics]
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

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