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“A world without glass would strike at the foundation of modern progress: the extended lifespans that come from understanding the cell, the virus, and the bacterium; the genetic knowledge of what ma...”
“All too often I try to skate away from the things I'm afraid of and things I don't like and am unwilling to accept. I'm selfish and difficult to handle. I give my men cause for concern. I worry the...”
“Sometimes the effect arrives thanks to a different kind of breakthrough: a dramatic increase in our ability to MEASURE something, and an improvement in the tools we build for measuring. New ways of...”
“The role of biblical counselors is facilitate the discovery of a greater God awareness through spiritual eyes that look at life through scriptural lenses.”
“The philosopher often appears ridiculous in the practical affairs of life, because he or she has stepped out of the rush of time.”
“Tolstoy does not tell us how things look to the author; he tells us how they look to the characters. In short, he does not use simile and metaphor. (That astonishing assertion in Woods review is wh...”
“What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments for observation or discovering new aspects of reality?”
“Florrie smiles with unmoderated joy, because she can't see that most people bank their happiness like it's something you might run out of”
“A fantastically huge, roiling cloud, glowing bluish gray, swaggered over the city. It was more than three miles tall. Below it Hiroshima was boiling.”
“We are all the heroes of our own stories, and on of the arts of perspective is to see yourself small on the stage of another's story, to see the vast expanse of the world that is not about you, and...”
“...and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...”
“...and that there were many things grown-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...”
“Nothing is clear now. Something must be the matter with my way of viewing things. I have no middle view. Either I fix on a detail and see it as thought it were magnified -- a leaf with all its vein...”
“Trying to analyze a situation without enough data was like looking at a photograph of a ball in flight and trying to gauge its direction. Is it going up, down, sideways? Is it about to collide with...”
“From the landscape: a sense of scale. From the dead: a sense of scale.”
“No two people ever view the world from exactly the same perspective, understand things the same way, human or not. The best we can ever do is try.”
“That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre.”
“Sometimes she wondered if the shape of his eyes affected how he saw things. That was probably the most racist question of all time.”
“It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.”
“The trouble with you people is that you've been here for thirty million years and your perspectives are all wrong. You miss so much of the transitory beauty of life.”
