Eli Weinstein

“Ascension seemed at such times a natural law. If one added to it a law of completion - that everything must finally be made comprehensible - then some general rescue of the sort I imagined my aunt to have undertaken would be inevitable. For why do our thoughts turn to some gesture of a hand, the fall of a sleeve, some corner of a room on a particular anonymous afternoon, even when we are asleep, and even when we are so old that our thoughts have abandoned other business? What are all these fragments for , if not to be knit up finally?”
― Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

“Facts are often faint and flickering. They are the achievements of subtle investigations that must painstakingly stabilize evanescent effects or ingeniously combine several strands of evidence into a strong, weight-bearing cord. Above all, as their etymology suggests, [...] the most interesting and useful facts are not given but made, artifacts in the best sense of the word.”
― Lorraine Daston

“Orthodox science today attempts to be free not only of values but also of emotions. As youngsters would say, it tries to be "cool".”
― Abraham H. Maslow, The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance

“It is a strange world that has lost children and mute lightning in it, and where two men can sit overlooking an abandoned mining town and talk in sadness and hope of building ships to whitewash far-off ocean skies.”
― Oliver Morton, The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World