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Sagredo: [I]n my opinion nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs. - "Two New Sciences" (1914 translation), Galileo Galilei
"Since the beginning, not one unusual thing has happened."
(On a side note, does anyone know whether that's original to Robin Brandt?)
A similar quote appears in Quantum Explanations - I imagine that's who Robin Brandt quoted.
Yep, looks like it. That's a problem with Google - if you search for Robin's very slightly variant, you only turn up Robin; but google without quotes, and you're lightyears away from any useful link.
Now that is very strange, if my Yahoo search is any indication.
(For the record: when I searched on Yahoo, it gave me "Quantum Explanations" as the very first hit. This may be a case of context-dependent searching, as I had immediately prior searched with the quotes.)
Edit: Fascinating! Look at Altavista!
Those results are way better than Google's. You're right about the interestingness - Yahoo and Altavista are infinitely superior in searching for non-quoted quotes. I'll have to remember that in the future and not assume Google is always better.