{"id":592,"date":"2008-02-29T14:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T14:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/02\/29\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-135\/"},"modified":"2008-02-29T14:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T14:26:00","slug":"science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-135","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/02\/29\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-135\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Fiction Author Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;The imbalance between the grand mysteries of the Universe as opposed to our own feeble faculties, leads us to set very modest expectations as to what we shall and shan&#8217;t be able to understand&#8211;and makes us passing suspicious of anyone who propounds dogma or seems to phant&#8217;sy he has got it all figured out.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Neal Stephenson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/System-World-Baroque-Cycle-Vol\/dp\/B0009K76DA\/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1204295271&#038;sr=8-1\"><em>The System of the World<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The imbalance between the grand mysteries of the Universe as opposed to our own feeble faculties, leads us to set very modest expectations as to what we shall and shan&#8217;t be able to understand&#8211;and makes us passing suspicious of anyone &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2008\/02\/29\/science-fiction-author-quote-of-the-day-135\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}