Minus One Quotes (4 quotes)
A million million spermatozoa,
All of them alive:
Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah
Dare hope to survive.
And among that billion minus one
Might have chanced to be Shakespeare, another Newton, a new Donne—
But the One was Me.
All of them alive:
Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah
Dare hope to survive.
And among that billion minus one
Might have chanced to be Shakespeare, another Newton, a new Donne—
But the One was Me.
'Fifth Philosopher's Song', Leda (1920),33.
Kriegman says
Think binary. When matter meets antimatter, both vanish, into pure energy. But both existed; I mean, there was a condition well call existence. Think of one and minus one. Together they add up to zero, nothing, nada, niente, right? Picture them together, then picture them separatingpeeling apart.
Now you have something, you have two somethings, where once you had nothing.
In Roger's Version (1986), 304.
Think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner of things that couldn't be imagined without it.
In The Golden Compass (1995, 2001), 372-373.
But in the binary system, Dale points out, handing back the squeezable glass, the alternative to one isnt minus one, its zero. Thats the beauty of it, mechanically. O.K. Gotcha. Youre asking me, Whats this minus one? Ill tell you. Its a plus one moving backward in time. This is all in the space-time foam, inside the Planck duration, dont forget. The dust of points gives birth to time, and time gives birth to the dust of points. Elegant, huh? It has to be. Its blind chance, plus pure math. Theyre proving it, every day. Astronomy, particle physics, its all coming together. Relax into it, young fella. It feels great. Space-time foam.
In Roger's Version: A Novel (1986), 304.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
