"Past time is finite, future time is infinite."

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Source : Edwin Powell Hubble (1937). “The Observational Approach to Cosmology”

Edwin Powell Hubble

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“Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for outward consumption. There will be no significant internal changes in the Soviet Union, other than for cosmetic purposes. Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep.”
“There is but one power in Europe, and that is Rothschild.”
“I was always the funny guy. Everyone wants to hang out with the funny guy.”
“When you look at nutrition from a purely scientific point of view, there is no place for consciousness. And yet, consciousness could be one of the crucial determinants of the metabolism of food itself.”
“I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state”
“I want to be remembered as a guy who tried his best and did his best”
“You hear stories like that of Canadians trying to get in, but when you go back home, you don't expect that.”
“The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrument it gives us information transcending our experience, it enables us to infer things that we have not seen from things that we have seen; and the evidence for the truth of that information depends on our supposing that the uniformity holds good beyond our experience.”

Source : William Kingdon Clifford (1999). “The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays”, Pyr Books

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