Carl Kruse

“Molecular genetic evidence (see Chapter 10 for the nature of this kind of evidence) shows that the closest living cousins of whales are hippos, then pigs, then ruminants. Even more surprisingly, the molecular evidence shows that hippos are more closely related to whales than they are to the cloven-hoofed animals”
― Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

“On the whole, resources are likely to come to you in greater abundance when you are generous and inclusive and engage people in your passion for life.”
― Rosamund Stone Zander, The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life

“Who am I being that they are not shining?”
― Rosamund Stone Zander, The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life

“When we look at a solid lump of iron or rock, we are 'really' looking at what is almost entirely empty space. It looks and feels solid and opaque because our sensory systems and brains find it convenient to treat it as solid and opaque. It is convenient for the brain to represent a rock as solid because we can't walk through it. 'Solid' is our way of experiencing things that we can't walk through or fall throug, because of the electromagnetic forces between atoms. 'Opaque' is the experience we have when light bounces off the surface of an object, and none of it goes through.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution