Vatsa

“Our future was so completely unknown, and I think that the unknown and the awful always bring a man nearer to his Maker.”
― H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines

“Can an instantaneous cube exist?' 'Don't follow you,' said Filby. 'Can a cube that does not last for any time at all, have a real existence?' Filby became pensive. 'Clearly,' the Time Traveller proceeded, 'any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thickness, and—Duration. But through a natural infirmity of the flesh, which I will explain to you in a moment, we incline to overlook this fact. There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time.”
― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

“God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.”
― Simon Singh, Fermat’s Last Theorem: The compelling biography and history of mathematical intellectual endeavour

“Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice