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“He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.”
“Mysteriously, almost unaccountably, my family had ended up in the trees, sort of like the Swiss Family Robinson.”
“It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.”
“In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. Natu...”
“The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence written to the end of the world by the division of the circles diamete...”
