"It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common."

-- Jodi Picoult

#Odds Quotes #Differences Quotes #People Quotes

“The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.”
“What binds us to space-time is our rest mass, which prevents us from flying at the speed of light, when time stops and space loses meaning. In a world of light there are neither points nor moments of time; beings woven from light would live "nowhere" and "nowhen"; only poetry and mathematics are capable of speaking meaningfully about such things.”
“The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.”
“Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.”

Source : "More Than Human". Book by Theodore Sturgeon, Chapter 2, p. 97, 1953.
“An observation, strictly, is only a sensation. Nobody means that we should reject everything but sensations. But as soon as we go beyond sensations we are making inferences.”

Source : Harold Jeffreys (1998). “The Theory of Probability”, p.412, OUP Oxford
“My #â€Ž intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.”
“all the gods are the same unknowable mystery, just as each face of a jewel strikes light in a different direction”

Source : Kate Constable (2011). “The Chanters of Tremaris Trilogy bundle: fantasy adventure magic series The Singer of All Songs; The Waterless Sea; The Tenth Power”, p.18, Allen & Unwin
“Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.”

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