2022-09-15 05:37
John Ruskin:
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.
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Lewis Thomas, “Information,” The Lives of a Cell: The solitary wasp, Sphex, nearing her time of eggs, travels aloft with a single theory about