“It came upon me sometime in my fifteenth year that I no longer woke up with sudden excitements—“Today I will get the Clerici solution! Today I will read about Humphry Davy and electric fish! Today I will finally understand diamagnetism, perhaps!” I no longer seemed to get these sudden illuminations,…”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.”— Charles Lindbergh, amazon.com