“Every act of communication is a miracle of translation”
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
“Science is a continual exploration of ways of thinking. Its strength is its visionary capacity to demolish preconceived ideas, to reveal new regions of reality, and to construct new and more effective images of the world.”
― Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
― Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity
“It’s people like that who scare me, the ones who aren’t doing a job, but becoming the job. The ones who don’t know where they’ll stop.”
― The Sudden Appearance of Hope
― The Sudden Appearance of Hope
“sometimes their motives were as pure as the driven snow. But the changes were made nonetheless,”
― Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
― Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
“As a journalist, he was a disaster; as a seller of advertising space and developer of market strategies, he was a genius”
― The Sudden Appearance of Hope
― The Sudden Appearance of Hope
Jacob’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jacob’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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