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Physicists had abandoned God long ago and hoped that firing repeated questions at nature would get to the truth. What scientists really believed in was that the think-check-think-again style of scientific method would yield some species of Truth.

“Boy, do I hate these holier-than-thou types.”

“Clerics.”

“Anybody who tries to hem science in, tell it what it can and cannot do. Boundaries are best defined by pushing against them. Expanding our horizons, our sense of wonder.”

She smiled. “There’s nothing holier than wow!?”

There were the usual anxieties, starkly revealing the uneasiness that ordinary intellectuals had with science.

He whispered, “Honey, it’s good ol’ love makes the world go round.”

“Actually, it’s inertia.”

All the astronauts were easy on the eyes. No coincidence. NASA didn’t train people the public wouldn’t want to watch.

Not sure. When don’t know, do experiment.

Minds embodies in strange shapes would still find themselves sharpened against evolution’s ceaseless whetstone.

What challenges would they face? In the end the universe as a whole was life’s ultimate opponent.

That mood had persisted when she finally got home and, unable to sleep, watched some TV. It was as usual, a cacophony, which combined with the other audio media gave a disposable pop culture that made every moment but the present seem quaint, bloodless, dead.

Exercise erased cares.

Well, this was what dads were for: saying the unsayable when you needed it.

Given a choice between existential despair and rapt religious fervor, her crowd chose marijuana.

Government doesn’t often move quickly, but when they do, it’s like an elephant stampede.