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| | Hannes Alfven |  | The appeal of the Big Bang has been more ideological than scientific. When men think about the universe, there is always a conflict between the mythical approach and the empirical scientific approach. In myth, one tries to deduce how the gods must have created the world - what perfect principles must have been used. |
| | Hannes Alfven | | There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. |
| | Hannes Alfven | | To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science. |
| | Robert Asprin | | Myth-Ion Improbable, the eleventh book in the Myth series, is premiering this week, and I did a reading from Something Mythic, the twelfth, Saturday. I hope Something Mythic will be done by the end of the year and out by the end of summer next year. |
| | Brooks Atkinson | | In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. |
| | Michael Bergin | | It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful. |
| | Stephen Bayley | | Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style. |
| | Albert Camus | | The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm. |
| | Jean Cocteau | | Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort. |
| | Stanley Crouch | | But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media. |
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