“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
― The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
― The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
“Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!”
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