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“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
― The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713
― The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713
“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”
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“In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
“Who would want to live in a world that is just not quite fatal?”
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“The paramedics said there was nothing unusual, just the way it goes, eighty some years and the inevitable kerplunk, the system goes down, lights blink out and there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the one who can't take any of them along.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
Karen’s 2025 Year in Books
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