The female is exploited, and the fundamental evolutionary basis for the exploitation is the fact that eggs are larger than sperms,’ wrote my college tutor Richard Dawkins in his bestselling evolutionary bible, The Selfish Gene.
“Il riso libera il villano dalla paura del diavolo, perché nella festa degli stolti anche il diavolo appare povero e stolto, dunque controllabile. Ma questo libro potrebbe insegnare che liberarsi della paura del diavolo è sapienza.”
― Il nome della rosa
― Il nome della rosa
“I write: All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
― Invisible Monsters Remix
― Invisible Monsters Remix
“Instead of thinking that each problem you face is a tragedy, you can use the creative side of your brain—which is likely to benefit from your FAST MINDS traits—to figure out a solution.”
― Fast Minds: How to Thrive If You Have ADHD
― Fast Minds: How to Thrive If You Have ADHD
“I still have that fear, even now—that suddenly my very existence will be denied and, through no fault of my own, I’ll be hurled into the night sea once more. Maybe that’s why I haven’t been able to form deep relationships with people. I always keep a distance between me and others.” He”
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
― Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“In our normal experience, it is time and space that are absolute, while speed is a relative thing: how fast something is perceived to be moving depends upon how fast you yourself are moving. But as one approaches light speed, it is speed that becomes an absolute quantity, and therefore space and time must become relative!”
― The Physics of Star Trek
― The Physics of Star Trek
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