"What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. We measure changes and those changes are all for the worse. We measure increasing disorder. Life is hard, says science, and constancy is the greatest of miracles."

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Source : David Quammen (2012). “Wild Thoughts from Wild Places”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

David Quammen

#Life Is Hard Quotes #Miracle Quotes #Cheerful Quotes

“Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”
“Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.”
“All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine”
“Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.”
“In every single 'Tinker Bell' movie, I feel like there's a message that I'm proud to communicate with kids.”
“Sit down at ten o'clock in the morning and write anything that comes into my head until twelve. One of the few things I've discovered about writing is to form a habit that becomes an addiction so that if you don't put something down on paper every day, you get really mean and awful with withdrawal symptoms, and your wife and your dog and your kids are going to kick your ***** until you get back to it because they can't bear you in that state of mind.”
“Silver is forty-four years old, if you can believe it, out of shape, and depressedâ€”although he doesnâ€™t know if you call it depression when you have good reason to be; maybe then youâ€™re simply sad, or lonely, or just painfully aware, on a daily basis, of all the things you can never get back.”
“The technology actually seemed to come at just the right time to make the Hulk - Mark Ruffalo was really able to play both characters.”

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