Joel

“Authors are partial to their wit”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

“Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

“...nature has never found human incomprehension a reason for changing her methods.”
― Matt Ridley, Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

“The scene strongly brings to mind a stack of magazines tied up with string in an attic. It strongly brings to mind that medical superman of yesteryear, the old doc on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post with his stethoscope planted on the chest of a child's doll, the old doc who rode from house to house through deep snows with his black bag beside him and his roan gelding pulling the sleigh, the old doc who did appendectomies on the kitchen table, the old doc who worked nine days a week and rested on the tenth.”
― John McPhee, Table of Contents