A million million million million (1 with twenty-four zeros after it) miles, the size of the observable universe.

Of course it is possible that UFO's really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the government is hushing it up

Not only that God does play dice, but that He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.

To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.

Succeed in spite of management.

One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From the viewpoint of positivist philosophy, however, one cannot determine what is real. All one can do is find which mathematical models describe the universe we live in. It turns out that a mathematical model involving imaginary time predicts not only effects we have already observed but also effects we have not been able to measure yet nevertheless believe in for other reasons. So what is real and what is imaginary? Is the distinction just in our minds?

We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I learned from this exercise was not to begin a sentence with "And." When I pointed out that most sentences in the Bible began with "And," I was told that English had changed since the time of King James. In that case, I argued, why make us read the Bible? But it was in vain. Robert Graves at that time was very keen on the symbolism and mysticism in the Bible.