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Daniel Chaikin
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“Kossula was no longer on the porch with me. He was squatting about that fire in Dahomey. His face was twitching in abysmal pain. It was a horror mask. He had forgotten that I was there. He was thinking aloud and gazing into the dead faces in the smoke. His agony was so acute that he became inarticulate. He never noticed my preparation to leave him.
So I slipped away as quietly as possible and left him with his smoke pictures.”
― Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
So I slipped away as quietly as possible and left him with his smoke pictures.”
― Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
“The next time you spray on Chanel No. 5 (assuming you do), you may wish to reflect that you are dousing yourself in distillate of unseen sea monster.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
“America says it loves science, but it sure as hell doesn't want to pay for it.”
― Lab Girl
― Lab Girl
“There is no God, but don’t tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night.”
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“I believe that our species will not last long. It does not seem to be made of the stuff that has allowed the turtle, for example, to continue to exist more or less unchanged for hundreds of millions of years, for hundreds of times longer, that is, than we have even been in existence. We belong to a short-lived genus of species. All of our cousins are already extinct. What's more, we do damage. The brutal climate and environmental changes that we have triggered are unlikely to spare us.”
― Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
― Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
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