"It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience."

-- Maya Beiser

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“Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another one. It may be claimed that the theory of descent is lacking, therefore, in the most essential feature that it needs to place the theory on a scientific basis, this must be admitted.”

Source : Thomas Hunt Morgan (1903). “Evolution and adaptation”
“Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.”
“Souderton was a good town to grow up in. Everybody knew each other.”
“If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.”

Source : Vernor Vinge (2010). “Zones of Thought: A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky”, p.368, Hachette UK
“A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.”
“The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.”
“That 'change makes us uncomfortable' is now one of the most widely promoted, widely accepted, and under-considered half-truths around. [I]t is not change by itself that makes us uncomfortable; it is not even change that involves taking on something very difficult. Rather, it is change that leaves us feeling defenseless before the dangers we 'know' to be present that causes us anxiety.”
“There is no doubt that the reason for my awful oversight was over-confidence that sapped my sense of danger. So that is where to look for the cause of bad blunders - in the exulting feeling of self-congratulation.”

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