Reverend Never and Me: God

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Actually, if you look closely, my bit wasn't based on fact either. Thats the problem with quantum physics. People try making it apply to the real world, and it doesn't work.

That's actually one of the things that I think is funniest about quantum physics.

I love your new avatar.  The look on your face says something.

Something like, "You'll die for that."

[Jasper]

The point isn't any of that, really.  The point is, what are you goanna do about it?

[LMNO]

Actually, if you look closely, my bit wasn't based on fact either. Thats the problem with quantum physics. People try making it apply to the real world, and it doesn't work.

That's actually one of the things that I think is funniest about quantum physics.

the universe was full of ignorance all around and the scientist panned through it like a
prospector crouched over a mountain stream, looking for the gold of knowledge among the gravel of
unreason, the sand of uncertainty and the little whiskery eight-legged swimming things of superstition.

Occasionally he would straighten up and say things like 'Hurrah, I've discovered Boyle's Third Law.'
And everyone knew where they stood. But the trouble was that ignorance became more interesting,
especially big fascinating ignorance about huge and important things like matter and creation, and people
stopped patiently building their little houses of rational sticks in the chaos of the universe and started
getting interested in the chaos itself - partly because it was a lot easier to be an expert on chaos, but
mostly because it made really good patterns that you could put on a t-shirt.

And instead of getting on with proper science* scientists suddenly went around saying how impossible
it was to know anything, and that there wasn't really anything you could call reality to know anything
about, and how all this was tremendously exciting, and incidentally did you know there were possibly all these little universes all over the place but no-one can see them because they are all curved in on themselves? Incidentally, don't you think this is a rather good t-shirt?

* Like finding that bloody butterfly whose flapping wings cause all these storms we've been having
lately and getting it to stop.

From "Witches Abroad"

Good GOD, I love Terry Pratchett.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Actually, if you look closely, my bit wasn't based on fact either. Thats the problem with quantum physics. People try making it apply to the real world, and it doesn't work.

That's actually one of the things that I think is funniest about quantum physics.

I love your new avatar.  The look on your face says something.

Something like, "You'll die for that."

[Payne]

Actually, if you look closely, my bit wasn't based on fact either. Thats the problem with quantum physics. People try making it apply to the real world, and it doesn't work.

That's actually one of the things that I think is funniest about quantum physics.

the universe was full of ignorance all around and the scientist panned through it like a
prospector crouched over a mountain stream, looking for the gold of knowledge among the gravel of
unreason, the sand of uncertainty and the little whiskery eight-legged swimming things of superstition.

Occasionally he would straighten up and say things like 'Hurrah, I've discovered Boyle's Third Law.'
And everyone knew where they stood. But the trouble was that ignorance became more interesting,
especially big fascinating ignorance about huge and important things like matter and creation, and people
stopped patiently building their little houses of rational sticks in the chaos of the universe and started
getting interested in the chaos itself - partly because it was a lot easier to be an expert on chaos, but
mostly because it made really good patterns that you could put on a t-shirt.

And instead of getting on with proper science* scientists suddenly went around saying how impossible
it was to know anything, and that there wasn't really anything you could call reality to know anything
about, and how all this was tremendously exciting, and incidentally did you know there were possibly all these little universes all over the place but no-one can see them because they are all curved in on themselves? Incidentally, don't you think this is a rather good t-shirt?

* Like finding that bloody butterfly whose flapping wings cause all these storms we've been having
lately and getting it to stop.

From "Witches Abroad"

Good GOD, I love Terry Pratchett.

It's a good quote. I actually just started re-reading Witches Abroad, and had just finished this bit before posting it directly to here.