"Physicists often quote from T. H. White's epic……" — Michio Kaku

"Physicists often quote from T. H. White's epic novel The Once and Future King, where a society of ants declares, "Everything not forbidden is compulsory." In other words, if there isn't a basic principle of physics forbidding time travel, then time travel is necessarily a physical possibility. (The reason for this is the uncertainty principle. Unless something is forbidden, quantum effects and fluctuations will eventually make it possible if we wait long enough. Thus, unless there is a law forbidding it, it will eventually occur.)"

— Michio Kaku

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Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. — Mortimer Adler
I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants. — A. S. Byatt
May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world. — Jonathan Carroll
I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's… — Adam Ant
No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars. — Victor Hugo
It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus… — Charles Darwin
There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has… — Winston Churchill
The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird,… — E. O. Wilson
Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no… — Clarence Day
The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and… — Murray Rothbard
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. — Gerald Brenan

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