Diversity in species and systems isn’t complexity—it’s insurance.
An object that tells of the loss, destruction, disappearance of objects. Does not speak of itself. Tells of others. Will it include them?
The mind-body problem is not just a local problem, but one that confronts us with a deep mystery about the universe.
如果我们想保护森林，就必须先了解它们。
I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.