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“Hypotheses were constantly reaching out into the darkness – slowly, almost inevitably refining and rectifying themselves through empirical contact with reality”
William Irvine, Apes, Angels and Victorians: The Story of Darwin, Huxley, and Evolution

Edwin Way Teale
“Time is the river. We are the islands. Time washes around us and flows away and with it flow fragments of our lives. So, little by little, each island shrinks….But where, who can say, down the long stream of time, are our eroded days deposited?”
Edwin Way Teale, Journey into Summer: A Naturalist's Record of a 19,000-Mile Journey through the North American Summer
tags: time

Will Durant
“The first form of culture is agriculture. It is when man settles down to till the soil and lay up provisions for the uncertain future that he finds time and reason to be civilized.”
Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage

“To think wishfully, to rest in comforting illusion when scientific truth is conceivably within reach, is to desecrate both one’s self and the universe.”
William Irvine, Apes, Angels and Victorians: The Story of Darwin, Huxley, and Evolution

“Life blindly breeds, battles, and slaughters its way up to mind and rationality”
William Irvine, Apes, Angels and Victorians: The Story of Darwin, Huxley, and Evolution

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