"What is a course of history
or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or
the best society . . .
compared with . . . looking always at what
is to be seen? Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a
seer? Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on
into futurity."--Henry David Thoreau
"The purpose of journalist is to afflict the comfortable."--Joseph
Pulitzer
Recently Read
(Not Necessarily the News) . . .
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
"22 theories that shook the world" by Steven Shapin at boston.com is a less-than-glowing review of Alan Lightman's book The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science.
