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Cosmos

For all we know, doomsday has already come to the far side of space, and it will be ten billion years before news of it crosses the wires.
If outer space inspires us, it is because we soar through the inner infinity of imagination.
The vast empty regions separating the faint stars suggests not so much creation from nothing, but creation of nothing—the calling into being of nonbeing.

open quote Mr. Stanley’s Aphorisms and Paradoxes are outstanding examples of the long-form aphorism... inevitably studded with discrete individual aphorisms that could easily stand on their own. close quote

-James Geary, author of The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism