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The professor was lost in thought. He was disturbed and worried, but proud that he was behaving like a true scientist: he wasn’t losing his head, or panicking, or believing in miracles.

— Dmitri Bilenkin The Uncertainty Principle (1978)

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What used to be an advantage had quickly turned into a liability, proving once more that in the mountains, as in life, nothing comes easily.

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There are no uninteresting fates, and each man takes away the universe when he dies.

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Reason is our guide, but the eye is its most trusted counselor.

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We all love mysteries in books and hate them in life. I’m no exception. After all, the reason we love mysteries in books is that the secret is revealed on the last page.

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This mountain could be a throne for God or Satan, but luckily, we are no longer children. We’ve climbed the highest peak in the solar system accessible to us, that’s all. Be happy, man!

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