“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to. Do you realize that this is the very path that goes through Mirkwood, and that if you let it, it might take you to the Lonely Mountain or even further and to worse places?”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“Scholars had known for more than fifteen hundred years that the world was large and round. Colón disputed both facts.”
― 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
― 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
“as the biologist J. B. S. Haldane once famously observed: “The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose.” The”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
“If God is dead, Nietzsche is perhaps the person who stumbles across the corpse; nevertheless, it is Kant whose fingerprints are all over the murder weapon.”
― The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
― The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
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