“We are born by accident into a purely random universe.”
Robert Silverberg book The Stochastic Man
Source: The Stochastic Man (1975), Chapter 1, (p. 1; opening words)
“Not many people can lay claim to having broken Time, and we did it purely by accident.”
Source: The Search for the Red Dragon
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