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wickedglass In reply to buckymcnasty [2010-11-25 00:21:24 +0000 UTC]

ah, here's the quote, lol ... it's completely not how I remember it, but the meaning is the same, lol

People think that it is strange to have a turtle ten thousand miles long and an elephant more than, two thousand miles tall, which just shows that the human brain is ill-adapted for thinking and was probably originally designed for cooling the blood. It believes mere size is amazing.

There’s nothing amazing about size. Turtles are amazing, and elephants are quite astonishing. But the fact that there’s a big turtle is far less amazing than the fact that there is a turtle anywhere.

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buckymcnasty In reply to wickedglass [2010-11-27 01:23:45 +0000 UTC]

That is probably the wisest thing I have ever heard, bar none.

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wickedglass In reply to buckymcnasty [2010-11-25 00:17:01 +0000 UTC]

as a big fan of Terry Pratchett I think that's one of the best comments I've ever had. I really love his work because he's got a sneaky way of disguising real philosophy as absurd situations. One of my favourite lines, and I'm ad libbing now, went something like: people are too easily impressed by size, they look at an elephant and the thing that strikes them is its size and they never stop to think how it is possible for such a thing to exist at all.
It's a lens I tend to view my glass through.

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buckymcnasty In reply to wickedglass [2010-11-27 01:41:33 +0000 UTC]

Your Soviet decanter glass?

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