Always Pouting

“The story of a poor man’s life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

“She looked at them with shining eyes. Her chin went up. She said:
"You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down
by the wrath of God! I do not!"
The judge stroked his chin. He murmured in a slightly ironic voice:
"My dear lady, in my experience of ill-doing, Providence leaves the work
of conviction and chastisement to us mortals-and the process is often
fraught with difficulties. There are no short cuts.”
― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

“Science results from a profoundly social process. The common portrayal—that science emerges from a solitary isolated genius, always laboring alone, not owing anything to anyone—is simply wrong.”
― Michael S. Gazzaniga, Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience

“Most discoveries become imaginable at a very specific moment in history, after which point multiple people start to imagine them.”
― Steven Johnson, How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World