Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.

Scars are the paler pain of survival received unwillingly and displayed in the language of injury.

No one ever really gets used to nightmares.

What miracle is this? This giant tree. It stands ten thousand feet high But doesn't reach the ground. Still it stands. Its roots must hold the sky.

Not all complex problems have easy solutions; so says science (so warns science.)

Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.

To read" actually comes from the Latin reri "to calculate, to think" which is not only the progenitor of "read" but of "reason" as well, both of which hail from the Greek arariskein "to fit." Aside from giving us "reason," arariskein also gives us an unlikely sibling, Latin arma meaning "weapons." It seems that "to fit" the world or to make sense of it requires either reason or arms.