Derek

“...humdrum lives breed wistful longings of the unknown...”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“Parents often sacrifice a lot for their offspring, and lengthy, restrictive periods of parental care can sometimes have detrimental or even deadly effects on the parent(s).”
― Dean Lomax

“In this fashion, knowledge begets questions which beget new technology which provides answers--which in turn beget questions. This is the implacable carousel of research.”
― Richard Fortey, Earth: An Intimate History

“Again see you not that even stones are conquered by time, that high towers fall and rocks moulder away, that shrines and idols of gods are worn down with decay, and that holy divinity cannot prolong the bounds of fate or struggle against the fixed laws of nature?”
― Lucretius, On the Nature of Things