“It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.” PeopleThinkingWorldShouldHumansHardBlackHuman BeingsAssumingPracticalsHolesApplicationQuestsBlack Hole Author:Yuri Milner
“Nobody was ever replaced in life, no hole completely filled or loss totally healed. You didn't need a medical degree to know that the human body really wasn't stronger in the broken places. Like any bone, the cracks would always show if you looked hard enough.” IfsKnowsNeedsHumansHardEnoughShowsBodyLossBrokenDegreesStrongerFilledBonesMedicalHolesCracksReplacedHuman BodyHealedHealed You Book:Come Home: A Novel Source: Come Home: A Novel
“Human pride is a strange thing; it cannot easily be suppressed, and if you stop up hole A will peep forth again in a twinkling from another hole B, and if this is closed it is ready to come out at hole C, and so on.” IfsHumansStrangeReadyPrideHolesStrange ThingsTwinkling Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg