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As for evolution, I have a hard time believing that billions of years ago two protozoan bumped into each other read more
As for evolution, I have a hard time believing that billions of years ago two protozoan bumped into each other under a volcanic cesspool and evolved into Cindy Crawford.
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
Fragments came floating into his mind like bits of wood drifting down a stream, and he fished them out and read more
Fragments came floating into his mind like bits of wood drifting down a stream, and he fished them out and fitted them together.
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
raspberry drupelets cluster around a cavern of emptiness
(paraphrased from her talk on C Span's Book TV).
raspberry drupelets cluster around a cavern of emptiness
(paraphrased from her talk on C Span's Book TV).
Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.
Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.
What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us read more
What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature.
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; read more
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.