“The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And though there be many things in nature which are singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them parallels and conjugates and relatives which do not exist. Hence the fiction that all celestial bodies move in perfect circles, spirals and dragons being (except in name) utterly rejected.” WorldHumansBodyMovingScienceOrderNamesUnderstandingPerfectExistenceFictionCirclesDragonsRejectedParallelsCelestialSpiralsRegularityCelestial Bodies Book:New Atlantis and The Great Instauration Source: New Atlantis and The Great Instauration
“I get plenty of time to re-engage with the world I'm trying to depict, so I'm not always living in these parallel worlds.” WorldTryingPlentyParallels Author:Toby Jones
“It was like there was some parallel universe we all vanished off to where we had all this sex.” UniverseSexParallelsParallel Universe Book:Never Let Me Go Source: Never Let Me Go