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“Activity does not necessarily mean life.”

Life Mean Doe Activity Meaning Life Quasars

Book:A Scanner Darkly

Source: A Scanner Darkly

“Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.”

Mean Doe Activity Active Monk Meditating Meaning Life Quasars

Book:A Scanner Darkly

Source: A Scanner Darkly

“Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes.”

Thinking I Can Ideas Bigs Universe Black Five Holes Fifty Satisfying Spheres Bangs Crystals Black Hole Arcadia Quarks Quasars

Book:Tom Stoppard: Plays

Source: Tom Stoppard: Plays

“Those who dislike fantasy are very often equally bored or repelled by science. They don't like either hobbits, or quasars; they don't feel at home with them; they don't want complexities, remoteness. If there is any such connection, I'll bet that it is basically an aesthetic one”

Ifs Want Feels Home Fantasy Connections Bored Complexity Dislike Aesthetic Remoteness Quasars

Book:The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

“I saw the whole universe laid out before me, a vast shining machine of indescribable beauty and complexity. Its design was too intricate for me to understand, and I knew I could never begin to grasp more than the smallest idea of its purpose. But I sensed that every part of it, from quark to quasar, was unique and - in some mysterious way - significant.”

Way Ideas Whole Purpose Universe Saws Design Unique Machines Shining Significant Mysterious Complexity Smallest Intricate Indescribable Mysterious Ways Quarks Quasars

Book:Ultraviolet

Source: Ultraviolet

“New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the whiskers of the dust mite. But turn the question around: Do new things make for new ways of seeing?”

Way Turns Seeing Sight Radio Dust New Things New Ways Telescopes Microscopes Electrons Whiskers Scanning Quasars

Book:Blue Highways: A Journey Into America

Source: Blue Highways: A Journey Into America