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“The Muses always remind me that scientists and artists should disregard the idiotic attempts to separate us. We are all nerds, in the end”

3.75*

… in deciding what will be remembered, a museum, any museum, is also deciding, in part, what will be forgotten.

Skepticism gave way to disbelief, disbelief to rejection and rejection to ridicule. […] was mislead by his own unconscious confirmation bias, seeing in the findings what he simply wishes to see”

“…immigrants, exiles, refugees, newcomers, outsiders… Too many words for a shared, recognizable sentiment that, no matter how often described, remains largely undefined”

One must have breakfast like a sultan, lunch like a vizier, dinner like a mendicant

As a man of science, reason and research, he would never give credence to the supernatural, yet neither would he belittle anyone who did. A scientist he might be but, first and foremost, he was an islander.

… many may try, but no one does optimism better than butterflies

3’75*

It’s a crime to burden the young with the sorrows of the old

I adore Canada, particularly its natural wonders, but living so far from home proved wearisome for me in the end

Because there is nothing like poverty to teach you just how much of a luxury integrity truly is.

If politics were just a farcical, inane, at times insane entertainment provided by characters who for the most part have got where they are, not by being in any way revolutionary or percipient or wise in their views, but by being the louder, bigger, more ostentatious, more unscrupulously wanting of the play of power than those around them…

…maybe humankind is in the late smash-it-all up teenage stage of self-harm and nihilism, because we didn’t ask to be alive, we didn’t ask to inherit an earth to look after, and we didn’t ask to be so completely unjustly darkly alone.

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