The present state of the system of nature is evidently a consequence of what it was in the preceding moment, and if we conceive of an intelligence which at a given instant comprehends all the relations of the entities of this universe, it could state the respective positions, motions, and general effects of all these entities at any time in the past or future.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
"The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are."