"An excess of science will leave none of us alive."

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Source : "Space Chantey" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 4), 1968.

R. A. Lafferty

#Excess Quotes #Alive Quotes

“The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.”
“Since your time is your main involvement here - I mean, the clay doesn't cost very much. Even the glaze and the firing doesn't cost a great deal. But your time is the cost, and if you can keep your time to a minimum and still come out with the results you want, that means the pots can be sold for an economic price.”
“It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.”
“Quantum physics is the physics of possibilities. And not just material possibilities, but also possibilities of meaning, of feeling, and of intuiting. You choose everything you experience from these possibilities, so quantum physics is a way of understanding your life as one long series of choices that are in themselves the ultimate acts of creativity.”
“Art is vice. One does not wed it, one rapes it.”
“I sometimes forget that life is fragile. The fact that I have more time to dream my dreams and take my ease is no reason at all to disregard the moment I'm in by preferring to be somewhere else. I have to remind myself that wherever I am. . . fast lane or slow lane, in traffic or out of traffic, racing or resting . . . God is there. He is in me, abiding in me, thus making it possible for me to be all there, myself.”
“Whatâ€™s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I havenâ€™t even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth.”
“Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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