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• The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature.
  The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient....
• We may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her cost and finery upon this small speck of Dirt.
  So, like Travelers into other distant countries, we shall be better able to judge of what's done at home, know how to make a true estimate of, and set its own value upon every thing....
• Most ignorance is vincible ignorance: we don't know because we don't want to know.
  -- Aldous Huxley...
• They want us to pretend that we see the world as they pretend they see it.
  They need some sort of sanction from us. I don't know the nature of the sanction -- but, Dagny, I know that if we value our lives, we must not give it to them....
• In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
  -- Henry Ward Beeche...
• If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game.
  Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make believe....
• Nature (reality) is just as absolutist as chess, and her rules (laws) are just as immutable (more so) -- but her rules and their applications are much
  much more complex, and have to be discovered by man....
• Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature. -- Thomas Henry Huxley
• Homer: [panicky] Oh my God, I'm going to be sucked into a black hole
  I'm going to be sucked into oblivion, I'm going to be nothing, and what's going to be coming out the other side, I don't know!...