“As it turned out, imagining the fate of seven billion people was far less emotionally affecting than imagining the fate of one.”

“Five Thousand Years Later” (p. 741)
Seveneves (2015), Part Three

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American science fiction writer 1959

Ivars Peterson (1948) Canadian mathematician

Source: The Jungles of Randomness: A Mathematical Safari (1997), Chapter 10, “Lifetimes of Chance” (p. 188)

“I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.”

Anne Fadiman (1953) American essayist, journalist and magazine editor

Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

“If music is the language of the world, then just imagine how beautiful a seven-billion-part harmony would be. ”

Скотт Ричард Хоуинг (1991)

“The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.”

Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American theoretical physicist

The Value of Science (1955)

“Gradually, over the last twenty years, the vacuum has turned out to be more unusual, more fluid, less empty, and less intangible than even Einstein could have imagined.”

John D. Barrow (1952–2020) British scientist

Preface
The Book of Nothing (2009)
Context: The spooky ether was persistent. It took an Einstein to remove it from the Universe.... Gradually, over the last twenty years, the vacuum has turned out to be more unusual, more fluid, less empty, and less intangible than even Einstein could have imagined. Its presence is felt on the very smallest and largest dimensions over which the forces of Nature act.