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It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives. He cannot withstand the influence of habit and associations that surround him.
“Beauty comes out of necessity. For though we may dress up the truth with fancy aesthetic theories, we are biologically programmed to appreciate colour and the reflected glare of the sun for our survival.”
― Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc
― Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc
“everything is made of elements, yet the pure elements themselves seem oddly elusive, almost always locked away in inscrutable minerals and compounds. Searching for the elements in nature was like raiding a bakery and finding plenty of cakes and buns but no sign of the flour and sugar from which they were made.”
― Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc
― Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc
“And what difference is there in the color of the soul?”
― 12 Years a Slave
― 12 Years a Slave
“living in cities was one of the things which caused humans to rely on maths. But which part of city living is recorded in our longest-surviving mathematical documents? Brewing beer. Beer gave us some of humankind’s first calculations.”
― Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
― Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
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