We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that our very existence defies the odds of the universe's complexities.
Ray Bradbury highlights the extraordinary nature of human existence amidst a vast and often chaotic universe. The quote invites reflection on the improbability of life and emphasizes the significance of our being, encouraging a sense of wonder about our place in the cosmos and the miraculous nature of existence itself.
In practice
During a speech about the wonders of science and existence, one might use this quote to inspire awe.
I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)
I never went to college, so I went to the library.
There must be something in books, something we canβt imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You donβt stay for nothing.
I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.
The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.
You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.
βWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
The Conqueror is always a lover of peace: he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.
Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.
This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.
People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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