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1 " There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are like genetically-manipulated plants growing inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance. "
― C. JoyBell C.
2 " If there is a Creator-God, it has used methods of creation that are indistinguishable from nature, it has declined to make itself known for all of recorded history, it doesn't intervene in affairs on earth, and has made itself impossible to observe. Even if you believe in that God... why would you think it would want to be worshiped? "
― David G. McAfee , Mom, Dad, I'm an Atheist: The Guide to Coming Out as a Non-Believer
3 " The horizon was indistinguishable from the inky black, which fell upon the desert like a sorcerer’s mantle shot through with diamonds. The stars were so tiny, so far away, and yet, at the moment, with her fingers curled around his, he almost felt as though he could reach up and snag one by the tail. "
― V.S. Carnes
4 " I cannot believe the path to victory lies in staining our souls so black we become indistinguishable from those we fight. "
― Anthony Ryan , Queen of Fire (Raven's Shadow, #3)
5 " It seemed that everyone else could mate, could fit their parts together in pleasant and productive ways, but that some almost indistinguishable difference in my anatomy and psyche set me slightly, yet irrevocably, apart. "
― Peter Cameron , Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
6 " Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. "
― Jennifer Foehner Wells , Fluency (Confluence, #1)
7 " 1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. "
― Arthur C. Clarke
8 " To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which so beautifully adorns the valley or the mountain: but to a naturalist who is reading in the face of the rocks the annals of a former world, the mossy covering which obstructs his view, and renders indistinguishable the different species of stone, is no less than a serious subject of regret. "
― James Hutton
9 " The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have been thrown together suddenly by some kind of freakish, vastly improbable, event. Such an occurrence would be indistinguishable from a miracle. "
― Michael Denton , Evolution: A Theory In Crisis
10 " Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device. "
11 " Scarcely has night arrived to undeceive, unfurling her wings of crepe (wings drained even of the glimmer just now dying in the tree-tops); scarcely has the last glint still dancing on the burnished metal heights of the tall towers ceased to fade, like a still glowing coal in a spent brazier, which whitens gradually beneath the ashes, and soon is indistinguishable from the abandoned hearth, than a fearful murmur rises amongst them, their teeth chatter with despair and rage, they hasten and scatter in their dread, finding witches everywhere, and ghosts. It is night... and Hell will gape once more. "
― Charles Nodier , Smarra & Trilby
12 " The smell of home was indistinguishable from the smell of leaving home: each inhalation a mix of familiarity and fear. "
― Camilla Gibb , The Beauty of Humanity Movement
13 " She was small. Her shadow moved in the dance of chaos before her as the inferno blazed behind her and licked the sky with its many tongues. She clutched an indistinguishable toy with both arms tightly. Her face was serene. Her eyes shone with courage more immense than the surrounding flames. She was small, but at that moment, I've never seen a bigger person. "
14 " The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats... "
― T.H. White , The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-4)
15 " A sense of messianic purpose makes the national interest almost indistinguishable from the political interests of the president. "
― , The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
16 " In the twentieth century, one encounters artworks that seek to cancel the difference between a real and an imagined reality by presenting themselves in ways that make them indistinguishable from real objects. Should we take this trend as an internal reaction of art against itself? … No ordinary object insists on being taken for an ordinary thing, but a work that does so betrays itself by this very effort. The function of art in such a case is to reproduce the difference of art. But the mere fact that art seeks to cancel this difference and fails in its effort to do so perhaps says more about art than could any excuse or critique. "
― Niklas Luhmann , Art as a Social System
17 " There in the highlands, clear weather held for much of the time. The air lacked its usual haze, and the view stretched on and on across rows of blue mountains, each paler than the last until the final ranks were indistinguishable from the sky. It was as if all the world might be composed of nothing but valley and ridge. "
― Charles Frazier , Cold Mountain
18 " Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody—so utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air? "
― Elizabeth Gilbert , Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
19 " He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knewit, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent deliriumof his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness. "
― Aldous Huxley , Brave New World
20 " Sometimes an act of common sense is indistinguishable from an act of genius. "
― Amit Kalantri
