“A woman came up to Michael Faraday after he performed this demonstration and asked: “But, Mr. Faraday, of what use is it?” Faraday famously replied, “Madam, of what use is a newborn babe?”
― Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation
― Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation
“we live on a cosmic speck of dust, orbiting a mediocre star in the far suburbs of a common sort of galaxy, among a hundred billion galaxies in the universe.”
― Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
― Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
“Yes, the universe had a beginning. Yes, the universe continues to evolve. And yes, every one of our body’s atoms is traceable to the big bang and to the thermonuclear furnaces within high-mass stars. We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say that the universe has empowered us, here in our small corner of the cosmos, to figure itself out. And we have only just begun.”
― Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
― Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
“The natural world is a package deal; you don’t get to select which facts you like and which you don’t.”
― Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation
― Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation
“There is pride, too, though—pride that he has done it alone. That his daughter is so curious, so resilient. There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing. That’s how it feels right now, he thinks, kneeling beside her, rinsing her hair: as though his love for his daughter will outstrip the limits of his body. The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane. The drain moans; the cluttered house crowds in close.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
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