Source: Shadows Linger (1984), Chapter 29, “Juniper: Payoff” (p. 346)
“You toyed with my heart, like it was a toy heart. (Lisa Simpson)”
Source: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents (1988), p. 196.
“I’ll argue to the death against stupid legislation, but some rules exist for a reason.”
Source: On the Steel Breeze (2013), Chapter 5 (p. 43)
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason.”
Source: Life, the Universe and Everything
The Righteous Mind (2012)
In response to David Letterman's question, "What do we now know [about the universe] we didn’t know before?" on The Late Show (23 March 2005)
Context: Well, a big question is how did the universe begin. And we, cannot answer that question. Some people think that the big bang is an explanation of how the universe began, its not. The big bang is a theory of how the universe evolved from a split second after whatever brought it into existence. And the reason why we’ve been unable to look right back at time zero, to figure out how it really began; is that conflict between Einstein’s ideas of gravity and the laws of quantum physics. So, string theory may be able to — it hasn’t yet; we’re working on it today — feverishly. It may be able to answer the question, how did the universe begin. And I don’t know how it’ll affect your everyday life, but to me, if we really had a sense of how the universe really began, I think that would, really, alert us to our place in the cosmos in a deep way.
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
