John P

“We know that man has the faculty of becoming completely absorbed in a subject however trivial it may be, and that there is no subject so trivial that it will not grow to infinite proportions if one's entire attention is devoted to it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude (Translator), War and Peace

“But despite the fact that the doctors treated him, bled him, and gave him medicines to drink -- he recovered.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life. Who can explain the what is the essence of the attraction of gravity?”
― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

“...a writing in the sand which all may read but few understand." - Philip Jose Farmer in 'Riders of the Purple Wage”
― Philip Jose Farmer