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The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth. This is a book about the signal and the noise.
“We are often more tender to the dead than to the living, though it is the living who need our tenderness most.”
― Underland: A Deep Time Journey
― Underland: A Deep Time Journey
“But science’s biggest flaw and biggest virtue is that it almost always mistakes agreement for truth.”
― The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth – A Popular Science and Natural History Study of Botany
― The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth – A Popular Science and Natural History Study of Botany
“Ten generations back, for example, the number of ancestral stretches of DNA is around 757 but the number of ancestors is 1,024, guaranteeing that each person has several hundred ancestors from whom he or she has received no DNA whatsoever.”
― Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
― Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
“Chickens—lowly chickens!—have a rhodopsin for low-light conditions, four color-sensing pigments, and a pigment in their pineal glands (uninventively called pinopsin) that uses light to help set their circadian rhythm. That’s quite a bit of color, but chickens aren’t so lowly, really. They’re the evolutionary offspring of dinosaurs, after all.”
― Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern
― Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern
“For deep time is measured in units that humble the human instant: millennia, epochs and aeons, instead of minutes, months and years. Deep time is kept by rock, ice, stalactites, seabed sediments and the drift of tectonic plates. Seen in deep time, things come alive that seemed inert. New responsibilities declare themselves. Ice breathes. Rock has tides. Mountains rise and fall. We live on a restless Earth.”
― Underland: A Deep Time Journey
― Underland: A Deep Time Journey
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