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When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

You know, we humans are programmed to think that big changes on the Earth happened a long time ago, or will happen a long time in the future. What we don't realize is that they actually can happen right now. Right here, right now, while we're alive, in our own hours and days and months and years.

I think sometimes in life we rush and only later look back and say, 'Wow, that was something pretty cool that I did,' and we realize we should have been more aware while it was happening.

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didn't expect to see in my lifetime what has happened. I knew it would happen some day, but it came along faster than I at first thought.

A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.

Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered.

Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.