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In the past, information was treasured... These days we live on the shore of an ocean of knowledge... with regular tsunamis that threaten out sanity.

— Helen Czerski Storm in a Teacup (2016)

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Science is always trying to prove itself wrong, because that's the quickest route to finding what's actually going on.

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This book is about linking the little things we see every day with the big world we live in.

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So it's that opportunity that NOC has to do something really important. That's why I'm on board.

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A toaster can teach you some of the most fundamental laws of physics...

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You ...need a skeleton to hang pieces of information on, and for most people ...you say the ocean, they've got literally nothing... It really is a void.

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

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It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

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