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“in human populations, 60 percent of humans who had any children at all ended up in the family tree permanently, and 73 percent of people who survived to adulthood had children.”
― What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
― What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
“In 1956, oceanographer Henry Stommel suggested that, because of differences in temperature and salinity between the surface and the deep ocean, if you connect the surface and the deep ocean with a tube and push water through it, it might continue flowing indefinitely.”
― What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
― What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
“If we look at a polka-dot shirt with dots 5 centimeters apart, then we can use the visibility distance formula to calculate that if you see the shirt from more than 200 meters away, the individual dots won’t be visible and it will look like the fabric is a solid color.”
― What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
― What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
“God's Final Message to His Creation:
'We apologize for the inconvenience.”
― So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
'We apologize for the inconvenience.”
― So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
“No tree tries to become a certain kind of tree. No flower tries to become a certain kind of flower. The tree and the flower open up to the sun and soak up water. Thus, they grow into themselves. No judgment. No expectations. No commentary. Your task is the same. If you can stop trying so hard to become who you think you should be, and instead commit to understanding and nourishing yourself, you will bloom into whatever kind of person you are.”
― The Art of Talking to Yourself
― The Art of Talking to Yourself
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