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Life’s a piece of cake.

Ogden Nash (1935)



Through no skill of interpretation can this psi-function be turned into a passable description of a real state of affairs; in reality there is just no intermediary between exploded and unexploded.

Albert Einstein (1935)



A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which are only accessible to our reason in their most elementary forms—it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.

Albert Einstein (1949)



[T]hat is the founding assumption of science―that there is a real world out there that we can make sense of.

Paul Davies (1995)



Until we have a firm understanding of the flow of time, or incontrovertible evidence that it is indeed an illusion, then we will not know who we are, or what part we are playing in the great cosmic drama.

Paul Davies (1995)