"Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit." xkcd.com

A universe that needed someone to observe it in order to collapse it into existence would be a pretty sorry universe indeed.

- What is it?
- I'm afraid your son has... the knack.
- The knack?
- The knack. It's a rare condition characterized by an extreme intuition about all things mechanical and electrical... and utter social ineptitude.
- Can he lead a normal life?
- No. He'll be an engineer.

Dilbert

- What makes you qualified to be a reporter?
- I'm willing to violate anyone's privacy for my personal gain and then claim with a straight face that the public has a right to know.

Dilbert

- Even if love is just a contextually contingent psycho-social construct?
- Especially so.

PhD Comics

- I'm allowed to sleep?
- Only in a lie-awake-at-night-obsessing-over-it kind of way.

PhD Comics