Public understanding of science is more central to our national security than half a dozen strategic weapons systems.
Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life’s quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result — eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly — in you.
Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything (via thedragoninmygarage)
