Karen

“My little old dog
a heart-beat
at my feet”
― Edith Wharton

“[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

“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

“Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on Earth has it worse than an Emperor penguin.”
― Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World