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1 " Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights. "
― Henry Adams , La educación de Henry Adams
2 " A red dragonfly hovers above a backwater of the stream, its wings moving so fast that the eye sees not wings in movement but a probability distribution of where the wings might be, like electron orbitals: a quantum-mechanical effect that maybe explains why the insect can apparently teleport from one place to another, disappearing from one point and reappearing a couple of meters away, without seeming to pass through the space in between. There sure is a lot of bright stuff in the jungle. Randy figures that, in the natural world, anything that is colored so brightly must be some kind of serious evolutionary badass. "
― Neal Stephenson , Cryptonomicon
