My Favorite Quotes
Jan 2, 2024
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"I was the only person in an infinite exploding universe who knew that this powder was made of opal. In a wide, wide world, full of unimaginable numbers of people, I was—in addition to being small and insufficient—special.… [My] first scientific discovery shone, as even the cheapest plastic toy does when it is new."
- Hope Jahren (Lab Girl)
"These are young people floating between identities, but their affections never change. It exists beyond gender, beyond sexuality. Something incredibly high order."
- Pause and Select (Hourou Musuko and Love)
"I thought about our Earth that we irreversibly intervened in, yet must continue to live on. I thought about the people who decides to rebuild when faced with an utterly unlovable world."
- Kim Cho-Yeop (Garden at the End of the Earth)
"I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something."
- Richard Feynman
"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 (On the Origin of Species)
"Beyond the mountains, there are always mountains, at least until you reach the final mountain before your time on earth comes to an end. In the meantime, few things are more exhilerating than mountaineering."
- Oliver Burkeman (Four Thousand Weeks)
"Science too proceeds by lantern-flashes; it explores nature's inexhaustible mosiac piece by piece. Too often the wick lacks oil; the glass panes of the lantern may not be clean. No matter : his work is not in vain who first recognizes and shows to others one speck of the vast unknown."
- Jean Henre Fabre (The Insect World)