Source: The Tao of Physics (1975), Ch. 1, Modern Physics, p. 19.
“All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.”
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Thomas Pynchon
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Against the Day
Source: Against the Day (2006), p. 622
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