According to the current doctrines of mysticoscientism, we human animals are really and actually nothing but 'organic patterns of nodular energy composed of collocations of infinitesimal points oscillating on the multi-dimensional coordinates of the space-time continuum'. I'll have to think about that. Sometime. Meantime, I'm going to gnaw on this sparerib, drink my Blatz beer, and contemplate the a posteriori coordinates of that young blonde over yonder, the one in the tennis skirt, tying her shoelaces.

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.

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[The steady-state theory] was a minority view, but [Hoyle] and a few like-minded theorists were able to keep the plate spinning for years. Another Cambridge lu…