"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." - Einstein, Albert

"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world." - Einstein, Albert in 'Evolution of Physics' 1938

"The two most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity." - Ellison, Harlan

"They told him that every figure of space is but the result of the intersection by a plane of some corresponding figure of one or more dimension--as a square is cut from a cube, or a circle from a sphere." - Lovecraft, H. P. in 'Through the Gates of the Silver Key', 'Omnibus 1: At the Mountains of Madness'