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"What does it mean that I am brought to tears by a pointed scientific description of the formation of our solar system?" — May 13, 2010 11:06AM
"What does it mean that I am brought to tears by a pointed scientific description of the formation of our solar system?" — May 13, 2010 11:06AM
“[N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it.”
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
“If you alone found out what the lie was, then you're probably right—it would make no great difference. But if you ALL found out what the lie was, it might conceivably make a very great difference indeed.”
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
“If the world was made for us, then it BELONGS to us and we can do what we damn well please with it.”
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
“Resist much, obey little.”
― Leaves of Grass
― Leaves of Grass
“My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much of them in sheer dry bulk as there is the rest of me. Looked at in this way, I could be taken for a very large, motile colony of respiring bacteria, operating a complex system of nuclei, microtubules, and neurons for the pleasure and sustenance of their families, and running, at the moment, a typewriter.”
― The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
― The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
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