I knew how many zeroes there were in a quintillion, but I thought that algebra lived in ponds.

- Gavin Extence

When I read these books, I no longer felt like I was confined to a very tiny world. I no longer felt housebound and bedbound. Really, I told myself, …

- Gavin Extence

Even very low-probability events can, and indeed do, occur.

- Gavin Extence

In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn’t have the greatest track record.

- Gavin Extence

The most important thing I learned [...] was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very s…

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Fear distorts the world. Fear sees demons where only shadows dwell.

- Gavin Extence

If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy – w…

- Gavin Extence