Ed Stapleton

“Nonetheless, to the extent that there is a favored theory in physics and philosophy, it is certainly eternalism.”
― Dean Buonomano, Your Brain is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time

“Whether the lightning bewildered me and made me take a false turn, I cannot tell; for the hardest thing to understand, in intellectual as well as moral mistakes, is—how we came to go wrong.”
― George MacDonald, The Portent and Other Stories

“Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.’ ”
― Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

“As is true of most men who wield their power like a weapon, Conkling was widely feared, slavishly obeyed, and secretly despised.”
― Candice Millard, Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President