Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice.

The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.

Stand tall, smile bright, and let 'em wonder what secret's making you laugh.

Everyone loves a conspiracy.

The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh.

But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?

As you know, this little grain of sand has mass. A very small mass, but mass nonetheless." And because this grain of sand has mass, it therefore exerts gravity. Again, too small to feel, but there." Now," Katherine said, "if we take trilions of these sand grains and let them attract one another to form... say, the moon, then their combined gravtiy is enough to move entire ocreans and drag the tides back and forth across our planet.