"The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel."

-- Marge Piercy

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“Biology occupies a position among the sciences at once marginal and central. Marginal because-the living world constituting but a tiny and very "special" part of the universe-it does not seem likely that the study of living beings will ever uncover general laws applicable outside the biosphere. But if the ultimate aim of the whole of science is indeed, as I believe, to clarify man's relationship to the universe, then biology must be accorded a central position . . .”

Source : Jacques Monod (1972). “Chance and necessity: an essay on the natural philosophy of modern biology”, Vintage
“The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.”

Source : "Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie".
“Life was a fool's errand, carrying news to the worms.”

Source : Kylie Tennant (1968). “Lost Haven”
“The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.”
“Lozen is my right hand . . . strong as a man , braver than most, and cunning in strategy, Lozen is a shield to her people.”
“Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.”

Source : "Flatlander" by Larry Niven, 1967.
“Short on money, long on hope”
“You are bound to pick up influences.”

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