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What's your favorite quote these days?
The one I've been thinking about for weeks, even months now:
"All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter."
Max Planck
That Max, crazy.
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One of my favourite quotes is contained here: http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Albert_Einstein/("Imagination is more important than knowledge" - quoted here already by Jim) However I do like General Sedgwick's final words during the American Civil War: "They couldn't hit an Elephant at this dis..."
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"Even in a Palace it is possible to live well" - Marcus Aurelius http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Philosophy-Marcus-Aurelius.htm
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The quote from Steven Wolfram (?).
And I'm paraphrasing here:
'If we search the Computational Universe, could we find the Physical Universe?'
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke,
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"There is no such thing as Physical Reality, what we imagine to be Physical Reality is, in fact, Virtual."
Me (2010)
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I've often thought if there was intelligent life out there, "Why haven't they destroyed us already."  you again.
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humans--right smack dab in the very center of where nothing exists 
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"In a more enlightened world, hate would be treated as a medical disorder"
Rush W. Dosier, JR. (Why We Hate).
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"Science is the Universe revealing spiritual truth."
My science teacher from a dream I had.
I don't know his name, but he looked alot like Max.
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"You have hissed all my mystery lectures"
"You have tasted two whole worms"
-Rev. Spooner.
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"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable."
-Mark Twain.
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"It's that damned green Vulcan blood of yours."
Dr. McCoy
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"You're all out of your Vulcan minds" -Yours truly while hosting a table quiz over a decade ago. I asked the question "On which planet was Dr. Spock born? A lot of the room answered "Vulcan" which gave me the pleasure of informing them that they were thinking of Mr. Spock who is in any case a fictional character, unlike his namesake Dr. Spock, the baby & childcare expect. Who was born on Earth 
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"The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music"
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"It's hard to work in a group when you've an IQ of 2005"
-Q.
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"If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes."
-Roy Batty to genetic designer in 'Blade Runner'.
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"Okay, who put a "stop payment" on my reality check?"
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“Philosophy [i.e., physics] is written in this grand book—I mean the universe—which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wandering around in a dark labyrinth.”
Galileo
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"...quantum physics requires us to abandon the distinction between information and reality."
Anton Zeilinger
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