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GUIL: The law of averages, if I have got this right, means that if six monkeys were thrown up in the air for long enough they would land on their tails about as often as they would land on their —

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The causes we know everything about depend on causes we know very little about which depend upon causes we know absolutely nothing about.

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If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.

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On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard
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Born: July 3, 1937 (age 87)
Bio: Sir Tom Stoppard is a British playwright and screenwriter, knighted in 1997.
Known for:
  1. Arcadia (1966)
  2. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1966)
  3. The Real Thing (1980)
  4. Travesties (1975)
  5. The Invention of Love (1997)
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