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All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#humour #science #science

There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl of a shell or the petals of a flower and the way leaves arrange themselves about a twig. There are forces, hidden forces. If I can discover what they are, how they operate, I will have my hands upon the levers of creation and can work them myself. ↗

— Celia Rees

#philosophy #nature

This connection had the potential to be too special to ruin it with the hurt of misfired romantic intentions. And while half of me wanted to tear his shirt off with my teeth, I also wanted him to be in my life for the duration. I didn't want him to be the one I avoided because he'd hurt me. If I was just his friend, then I would still be blessed. If it meant swallowing my pride and being his shoulder when he got hurt, or being the one he ranted at when he was angry, I was prepared to do it with dignity. ↗

— Jessica Thompson

#friendship #love #friendship

Never perceive anything as being inevitable or predestined. The only absolute is uncertainty. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#philosophy #uncertainty #life

Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it. ↗

— Lawrence M. Krauss

#metaphysics #science #science

Y no tienen ni puta idea lo que es estar en una mala condición de salud, ninguna de las 2. Pendejas. ↗

— Mariana Calderón de la Barca

#anarchism

Besides my great fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica. ↗

— James Patterson

#sports

History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon? ↗

— Dan Brown

#culture

The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even than falling in love, and that was why she now felt that she was on the threshold of a new life, a happiness bound to endure for a very long time. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#love #romance #life

The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#praise #the-purpose-of-life #life