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- This sobers him somewhat and we keep on climbing.Part 3 (27% in)
- From that agony of bare existence to modern life can be soberly described only as upward progress, and the sole agent for this progress is quite clearly reason itself.Part 2 (36% in)
- It was hardly guessed by anyone that within a few decades there would be no more absolute space, absolute time, absolute substance or even absolute magnitude; that classical physics, the scientific rock of ages, would become "approximate"; that the soberest and most respected of astronomers would be telling mankind that if it looked long enough through a telescope powerful enough, what it would see was the back of its own head!Part 3 (52% in)
There are no more uses of "sober" in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
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