Sole

• “You, who know better than any one the motley world of cosmopolites, understand why I have confined myself to painting here only a fragment of it. That world, indeed, does not exist, it can have neither defined customs nor a general character. It is composed of exceptions and of singularities.”

• “It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create him.”

• “Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.”

• “Each word is a singularity, or is connected with a singularity, in our way of understanding existence.”

• “The "hard" science-fiction writers are the ones who try to write specific stories about all that technology may do for us. More and more, these writers felt an opaque wall across the future. Once, they could put such fantasies millions of years in the future. Now they saw that their most diligent extrapolations resulted in the unknowable … soon.”

• “The true human being … is the meaning of the universe. He is a dancing star. He is the exploding singularity pregnant with infinite possibilities.”

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Sole across IJR