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I'm not a brave man. My self-image is of a very small and weak person. In point of fact, I'm almost six feet, and solidly built. But I was a late bloomer. I spent those formative early high-school years as a pudgy little science whimp. I'm still scared of big men with deep voices.

— Rudy Rucker The Sex Sphere (1983)

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My real speciality is the mathematical analysis of Hilbert Space operators. But this was no time to come on like an ivory-tower idealist.

The Sex Sphere (1983)

“That’s the problem with immortality,” mused Jack. “You never live long enough to get there.”

Mad Professor (2007)

The space of our universe is the hypersurface of a vast expanding hypersphere.

The Sex Sphere (1983)

The public revealed its single most predictable trait: fickleness.

Mad Professor (2007)

Mother Nature doesn’t want power-tripping greedheads looking up her skirts.

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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1599)

All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within.

Sanu Sharma

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

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