Karen

“And it occurred to me how even pulling trees that day, just months ago, I was in heaven. Unaware. I had known nothing even as the evil was occurring, I hadn't been touched yet.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Round House

“The army’s exact losses are still uncertain, but there was no doubt that the Stalingrad campaign represented the most catastrophic defeat hitherto experienced in German history.”
― Antony Beevor, Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943

“[Chemist Michael] Polanyi found one other necessary requirement for full initiation into science: Belief. If science has become the orthodoxy of the West, individuals are nevertheless still free to take it or leave it, in whole or in part; believers in astrology, Marxism and virgin birth abound. But "no one can become a scientist unless he presumes that the scientific doctrine and method are fundamentally sound and that their ultimate premises can be unquestionably accepted.”
― Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb

“Life waits patiently for true heroes. It is dangerous when those aspiring to be heroes cannot wait until they find themselves.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh, Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals, 1962-1966