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Book cover for The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
Pantophobia, for example, is the granddaddy of all phobias as it means a morbid fear of absolutely everything. Pantophobia is the inevitable outcome of pandiabolism—the belief that the Devil runs the world—and, in its milder forms, is a ...more
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Carl Sagan
“If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.”
Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Charles Darwin
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

John Varley
“Will have been! A truly stratospheric verb.”
John Varley, Demon

John Varley
“Such a lexicon of tactics.”
John Varley, Demon

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