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• Have you ever wondered why clouds behave in such familiar ways when each specimen is so unique?
  Or why the energy exchange market is so unpredictable?...
• The genetic code does not, and cannot, specify the nature and position of every capillary in the body or every neuron in the brain.
  What it {can} do is describe the underlying fractal pattern which creates them....
• The first living thing to go through the device was a small white rat.
  I still have him, in fact. As you can see, the damage was not so great as they say....
• In one moment, Earth; in the next, Heaven.
  -- Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "For I Have Tasted The Frui...
• Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me.
  We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts....
• There are two kinds of scientific progress: the methodical experimentation and categorization which gradually extend the boundaries of knowledge
  and the revolutionary leap of genius which redefines and transcends those boundaries....
• A brave little theory, and actually quite coherent for a system of five or seven dimensions--if only we lived in one.
  -- Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "Now We Are Alone...
• To map the very stuff of life; to look into the genetic mirror and watch a million generations march past.
  That, friends, is both our curse and our proudest achievement....
• Time travel in the classic sense has no place in rational theory, but temporal distortion does exist on the quantum level, and more importantly it can be controlled.
  -- Academician Prokhor Zakharov "For I Have Tasted The Frui...