History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looking -- an unknowable infinity of events, which although out of control, controlled everything.

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

Easier to destroy the world than to change capitalism even one little bit.

History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looking -- an unknowable infinity of events, which although out of control, controlled everything.

Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic .

Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.

The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128