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“Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry to lay down a precise hexagon? It doesn't. It's programmed to chew up wax and spit it out while turning on its axis, and that generates a circle. Put a bunch of bees on the same surface, chewing side-by-side, and the circles abut against each other - deform each other into hexagons, which just happen to be more efficient for close packing anyway.”
― Blindsight
― Blindsight
“There is a room in England somewhere, but it's nowhere to be seen. It exists only in the mind, and only in the mind of those that have been there.”
― Vurt
― Vurt
“One day I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine.”
― Doctor Who: The Lost TV Episodes, Collection Two: 1965-1966
― Doctor Who: The Lost TV Episodes, Collection Two: 1965-1966
“The true method of knowledge is experiment.”
― All Religions Are One
― All Religions Are One
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