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The Best You Can Hope For In A Relationship Is To Find Someone Whose Flaws Are The Sort You Don’t Mind. It Is Futile To Look For Someone Who Has No Flaws, Or Someone Who Is Capable Of Significant Change; That Sort Of Person Exists Only In Our Imaginations.

Computers And Rocket Ships Are Examples Of Invention, Not Of Understanding. ... All That Is Needed To Build Machines Is The Knowledge That When One Thing Happens, Another Thing Happens As A Result. It's An Accumulation Of Simple Patterns. A Dog Can Learn Patterns. There Is No "why&rdqo"; In Those Examples. We Don't Understand Why Electricity Travels. We Don't Know Why Light Travels At A Constant Speed Forever. All We Can Do Is Observe And Record Patterns.

The World Isn't Fair, But As Long As It's Tilting In My Direction, I Find That There's A Natural Cap To My Righteous Indignation.

For Five Hundred Dollars, I'll Name A Subatomic Particle After You. Some Of My Satisfied Customers Include Arthur C. Quark And George Meson.

Some Physicists Describe Gravity In Terms Of Ten Dimensions All Curled Up. But Those Aren't Real Words-just Placeholders, Used To Refer To Parts Of Abstract Equations.