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

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Children in backseats cause accidents. Accidents in backseats cause children.

The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date. Only a few people can keep up with the rapidly advancing frontier of knowledge, and they have to devote their whole time to it and specialize in a small area. The rest of the population has little idea of the advances that are being made or the excitement they are generating.

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?

If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would try to pass them.

Many people find the universe confusing - it's not.