I do not like odd things until I can understand them.
“I do not like odd things until I can understand them.”
— Robert Jordan · Science
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I do not like odd things until I can understand them.
“I do not like odd things until I can understand them.”
— Robert Jordan · Science
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“I do not like odd things until I can understand them.”
“The end of time?" Ba'alzamon mocked. "You live like a beetle under a rock, and you think your slime is the universe. The death of time will bring me power such as you could not dream of, worm.”
“A man without trust might as well be dead.”
“Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing.”
“What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.”
“I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and how we should live.”
“Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.”
“DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.”
“I like the 'Science Channel,' the 'Discovery Channel,' I like 'Discovery Times,' which is a fabulous hybrid of the 'New York Times' and 'Discovery Channel.' Maybe I'm just an old man, but I like to watch that stuff.”
“If the entire course of evolution were compressed into a single year, the earliest bacteria would appear at the end of March, but we wouldn't see the first human ancestors until 6 a.m. on December 31st. The golden age of Greece, about 500 BCE, would occur just thirty seconds before midnight.”
“There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it as it is. Such an one was”
“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”