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Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.

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The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupi...more

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The history of every major galactic civilisation tends to pass through three distinct and recognisable phases, those of Survival, Enquiry and Sophisti...more

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He would insult the Universe. That is, he would insult everybody in it. Individually, personally, one by one, and (this was the thing he really decide...more

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She thought that trying to live life according to any plan you actually work out is like trying to buy ingredients for a recipe from the supermarket. ...more

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He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread...more

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After five seconds there was a click, and the entire Universe was there in the box with him.

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He had seen the whole Universe stretching to infinity around him—everything. And with it had come the clear and extraordinary knowledge that he was th...more

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In an infinite Universe anything can happen," said Ford, "Even survival. Strange but true.