Dick Sharples quotes

Death is just nature's way of telling you to slow down.
-- Dick Sharples

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Let us not doubt that God has a father's pity towards us, and that in the removal of that which is dearest to us He is still loving and kind. Death separates, but it also unites. It reunites whom it separates.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.

Imagine that: If you could change one of the genes in an experiment, an aging gene, maybe you could slow down aging and extend lifespan.

If you don't want to grow old, then slow down the slowing down process.

There's time to slow down, after you're dead.

I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.