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He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

It is known that are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there are an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However not every one of them is inhabited. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely products of a deranged imagination.

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

Now logic is a wonderful thing but it has, as the processes of evolution discovered, certain drawbacks.  Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else which thinks at least as logically as it does.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

Humans are unique in their ability to learn from the mistakes of others, and in their extreme disinclination to do so.