"If a coin comes down heads, that means……" — Philip Pullman
"If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. Until that moment the two possibilities were equal. But on another world, it does come down tails. And when that happens, the two worlds split apart."
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176 Quotes by Philip Pullman
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We have to learn everything we do.
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