Lee Spetner Quotes

“Dawkins mentioned two mechanisms: the theory of the ‘primeval soup’ and the Cairns-Smith theory. He discussed the latter in some detail. Since no one has computed, for either theory, the chances of the events occurring, Dawkins could not tell us what those chances are. The mechanisms of both theories, however, have every appearance of being very improbably – even to the point of being impossible.”

“How many millions there are who don't want to go to Hell, but they don't want to get off the road to Hell.”

“It's not that he hated the wooden cube. It's what was inside it that he didn't like.”

“I don't put bad people in the Void, Blayne. Only the guilty ones.”

“In the light, he looked like a fallen angel asked to return to Hell.”

“How this woman had managed to get under his skin and claw her way inside was a mystery. He couldn’t leave her there though. His entire being was screaming at him to get her out.”

“Don’t run away from me, Logan. I’m not sure why you’re scared every time I try and show you some kindness, but don’t reject me. It’s not easy for me either. I’m not a natural. I’ve forgotten how it feels to put down the barriers and let someone in.”

“He gains the farthest reaches where the ache of our most ancient absence lay.”

“May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them.”

“I turned and beheld seven rows of plasma screens, each bearing seven vivid scenes, each flickering, each pulsing with a light revealing distant terrors, conflagrations, sufferings - and all thereby brought so close, and all thereby kept far away.”