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“For forty or fifty years past, Mr. H. G. Wells and others have been warning us that man is in danger of destroying himself with his own weapons, leaving the ants or some other gregarious species to take over. Anyone who has seen the ruined cities of Germany will find this notion at least thinkable.” … Continue reading
”There is a plaque at Boardwalk and Park Place, and on it in relief is the leo nine profile of a man who looks like an officer in a metropolitan bank “Charles B. Darrow, 1889-1967, inventor of the game of Monopoly.” “Darrow,” I address him, aloud. “Where is Marvin Gardens?” At the beginning of the … Continue reading
”There is no returning on the road of life. The frail bridge of time on which we tread sinks back into eternity at every step we take. The past is gone from us forever.” We cannot live in the past because once it is gone, it is gone forever. There is no time machine that … Continue reading
“Some of us who live in arid parts of the world think about water with a reverence others might find excessive.” We do not think that much about water because we have the privilege of having clean, drinkable water unlike other people. Some countries barely have water and if they do have water it is … Continue reading
“What bothers many of us paleontologists,” said Fred Smith of the University of Tennessee, “is the perception that this new data from DNA is so precise and scientific and that we paleontologists are just a bunch of bumbling old fools. But if you listen to the geneticists, you realize they’re as divided about their genetic … Continue reading
“The not knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the possibility of having the mind move in unanticipated directions, there would be no invention.” When creating a sculpture or painting a picture, an artist just starts out without knowing what they are … Continue reading
”Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair.” After finding the body of Homer Baron, they noticed that the pillow … Continue reading
The next morning young Goodman Brown came slowly into the street of Salem village, staring around him like a bewildered man. The good old minister was taking a walk along the graveyard to get an appetite for breakfast and meditate his sermon, and bestowed a blessing, as he passed, on Goodman Brown. After the night … Continue reading
“it is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing but you cannot stand in the middle of this: the sea has nothing to give but a well excavated grave.” The human race believes it is the most advanced, and powerful thing in the world. Yet this is somewhat true, the human race is not … Continue reading
“He had lived and died in an intolerable bitterness of spirit and it frightened me, as we drove him to the graveyard through those unquiet, ruined streets, to see how powerful and overflowing this bitterness could be and to realize that this bitterness now was mine.” A couple of days before they were going to … Continue reading
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