Eli Weinstein

“It is a strange world that has lost children and mute lightning in it, and where two men can sit overlooking an abandoned mining town and talk in sadness and hope of building ships to whitewash far-off ocean skies.”
― Oliver Morton, The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World

“Orthodox science today attempts to be free not only of values but also of emotions. As youngsters would say, it tries to be "cool".”
― Abraham H. Maslow, The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance

“Cain killed Abel, and the blood cried out from the ground--a story so sad that even God took notice of it. Maybe it was not the sadness of the story, since worse things have happened every minute since that day, but its novelty that He found striking. In the newness of the world God was a young man, and grew indignant over the slightest things. In the newness of the world God had perhaps not Himself realized the ramifications of certain of his laws, for example, that shock will spend itself in waves; that our images will mimic every gesture, and that shattered they will multiply and mimic every gesture ten, a hundred, or a thousand times. Cain, the image of God, gave the simple earth of the field a voice and a sorrow, and God himself heard the voice, and grieved for the sorrow, so Cain was a creator, in the image of his creator.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

“One of our finest methods of organized forgetting is called discovery.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin