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“You don’t have to choose between being scientific and being compassionate.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky
"But the plans were on display . . ."
"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"That's the display department."
"With a torch."
"Ah, well the lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"But look, you found the notice, didn't you?"
"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying Beware of the Leopard."
He paused and maneuvered his thoughts. It was like watching oil tankers doing three-point turns in the English Channel.
And this bit in particular reminded me of Carl Sagan when he spoke about books in Cosmos:
>Continuity is how a society talks to itself across time. It is how we remain connected to what we have done and what has been done for us.
I can practically hear Sagan's voice:
>What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
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>[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”
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>― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
