Jeremy

“and, serving up the spicy synonyms like a Bennett Park wiener vendor, noted that “swats, bingles and wallops are as common in the jungaleers camp as dandelions in a shiftless neighbor’s front lawn.”
― Charles Leerhsen, Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty

“It’s a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well as fundamental spaciousness.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

“Science progresses on a path quite different from what the public sees. Regular surveys about the public understanding of science tell us that the non-scientist doesn’t comprehend well the importance of critical concepts like controlled trials, peer review, skeptical criticism, and holding provisional conclusions. People form their ideas about science from the input they get via basic education and popular culture. The scientific news and literature is very different from news and media meant for public consumption and it is not easily accessible to the public. Most of us get our news through sources that assume a non-specialist audience. These emphasize exciting or monetary aspects of the latest findings in science, disregarding or oversimplifying the amount of work necessary to reach the conclusion. This framing of science news, unfortunately, misrepresents the process and skews the public understanding of science.”
― Sharon A Hill, Scientifical Americans: The Culture of Amateur Paranormal Researchers

“Real life is all beginnings. Days, weeks, children, journeys, marriages, inventions. Even a murder is the beginning of a criminal. Perhaps even a spree. Everything is prologue. Every story has a stutter. It just keeps starting and starting until you decide to shut the camera off. Half the time you don’t even realise that what you’re choosing for breakfast is the beginning of a story that won’t pan out till you’re sixty and staring at the pastry that made you a widower. No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story. Or never even get one so much as half-begun.”
― Catherynne M. Valente