As eternity is reckoned there's a lifetime in a second. - Piet Hein

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As eternity is reckoned there's a lifetime in a second.

Piet Hein

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Piet Hein (16 December 1905 – 18 April 1996) was a Danish mathematician, scientist, inventor, and poet. He often wrote using the pseudonym Kumbel (Old Norse for "tombstone").

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Nature, it seems, is the popular name
for milliards and milliards and milliards
of particles playing their infinite game
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We shall have to evolve problem-solvers galore — since each problem they solve creates ten problems more.

True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise.

As eternity is reckoned there's a lifetime in a second. - Piet Hein

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