My suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. ... I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of, in any philosophy. That is the reason why I have no philosophy for myself, and must be my excuse for dreaming.
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Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism and theosophy to the Christian system or that of Kant, and I have always felt that they were much too simple. I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth that are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy. That is the reason why I have no philosophy myself, and must be my excuse for dreaming.
The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
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I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
The universe is not only stranger than we imagine; but stranger than we CAN imagine.
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
El universo no sólo es más raro de lo que suponemos. Es más raro de lo que podemos suponer
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
I don't pretend to understand the universe — it's much bigger than I am.
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View PlansThere are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. — William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 1, scene 5
Because the universe is not a fairy tale.
All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.
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