Line #4 Quotes/DoingInTheWizard


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2	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
3	->'''WebVideo/SomeJerkWithACamera:''' When you try to shoehorn science into magic, all you do is make it less fun for the fantasy lovers, and even more infuriating for the science nerds!\
4	'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic:''' We don't ''need'' to know the science of the [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture flux capacitor]], we don't ''need'' the engineering manual for the [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Ring of Power]]. Do you want [[Film/ThePhantomMenace midichlorians]]? Because this is how you get midichlorians!
5	-->--''Film/TheSorcerersApprentice''
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8	[[folder:Literature]]
9	->"Science was taking the magic out of everything."
10	-->-- ''Literature/ArtemisFowl''
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12	->''"A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. The story should never be made up of improbable incidents; there should be nothing of the sort in it."''
13	-->-- '''Creator/{{Aristotle}}''', ''Literature/{{Poetics}}''
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16	[[folder:Music]]
17	->''I thought that they were angels, but to my surprise\
18	They climbed aboard their starship and headed for the skies.''
19	-->--'''Music/{{Styx}}''', "Come Sail Away"
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22	[[folder:Video Games]]
23	->''"I believe that the [[PhysicalGod Traveler]] and its [[MagicAIsMagicA Light]] are [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien advanced technology]]. [[DefiedTrope I refuse to accept that this diminishes me]]."''
24	-->--'''"[[FlavorText Inertia Engine]]"''', ''Videogame/{{Destiny}}''
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26	->''"The latest research has produced startling revelations about Inkling ink! [[VideoGame/Splatoon1 Once thought to simply disappear after a while]], Inkling ink is actually rapidly disintegrated by airborne microbes!"''
27	-->-- '''Sunken Scroll 14''', ''VideoGame/Splatoon2''
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29	->''"Long ago, the Mudmouth was thought to be a spirit who haunted the depths of the Splatlands seas. Now, thanks to courage and quick thinking of Splatsville youths who thought to start [[FeedItABomb throwing bombs into their mouths]], we know they're just Salmonids who got stuck in a pipe and coated in mud."''
30	-->-- '''Salmonid Field Guide''', ''VideoGame/Splatoon3''
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33	[[folder:Web Animation]]
34	->''"Church, there's no such thing as ghosts. You're one of them. You're an AI. You... are the Alpha."''
35	-->-- '''Washington''', ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue''
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38	[[folder:Web Original]]
39	->''It's like finding out that pixie dust is just a fungus which grows in the brain.''
40	-->-- '''[[WebVideo/TheAmazingAtheist The Distressed Watcher]]''' on ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'''s "midichlorian" explanation of the Force
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42	->''Okay while I admit I’d hate physically fighting an actual demon, why the fuck can’t family curse irl be more cool like they are in fiction. Like I got thrown the “lol you have 25 years to figure out what drives every man in your family to drink himself to death and every woman to go insane, before it gets you too” and all fucking along it was a chemical imbalance that [[MugglesDoItBetter can better be medicated by small pills invented like a few decades ago]], and the reason every single fucking generation before me failed it was because the answer was literally out of their reach the whole time.\
43	Like what kind of bullshit game is that.''
44	-->-- '''pakastekaappihomo''', Website/{{Tumblr}}
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46
47	[[folder:Western Animation]]
48	->''(After finding "[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot robot ghosts]]")''\
49	'''Farnsworth:''' Just as I suspected. These robots were buried in improperly shielded coffins. Their programming leaked into the castle's wiring through this old, abandoned modem, allowing them to project themselves as holograms.\
50	'''Hermes:''' Of course! It was so obvious!\
51	'''Farnsworth:''' [[LampshadeHanging Yes, that sequence of words I said makes perfect sense]].
52	-->--''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E18TheHonking The Honking]]"
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55	[[folder:Miscellaneous]]
56	->''"You got your crappy sci-fi all over my fantasy RPG."''
57	-->-- '''Lewis''', ''[[http://ffn.nodwick.com/?p=15 Full Frontal Nerdity]]''
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59	->''"My old maths teacher used to say: 'Magic doesn't show the working.'"''
60	-->-- '''Creator/TerryPratchett'''
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62	->''We are not exploring the Moon or any other more improbable region. No analysis in any laboratory would discover chemical properties of lembas that made it superior to other cakes of wheat-meal.''
63	-->-- '''Creator/JRRTolkien''', Letter #210
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