Quotes
💬📚 “A scientist’s explanations about other animals are dictated by the data she collects, which are influenced by the questions she asks, which are steered by her imagination, which is limited by her senses.” Ed Yong, An Immense World
Good to remember about all research.
💬📚 “[The senses] pull relevance from randomness, and weave meaning from miscellany.” Ed Yong, An Immense World
📚💬 “Animals are not just stand-ins for humans or fodder for brainstorming sessions. They have worth in themselves.” - Ed Yong, An Immense World
📚💬 “It is all that we know, and so we easily mistake it for all there is to know.” Ed Yong, An Immense World
“…anger is counterproductive to puzzle solving. And to problem solving in general.” A. J. Jacobs in The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life
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The TNG episode, “The Masterpiece Society,” is great. 🖖🏻📺💬
“It was the wish of our founders that no one have to suffer a life of disabilities.” “Who gave them the right to decide whether or not I might have something to contribute?” - Hannah Bates and La Forge, on eugenics
“It appears that hijinks are the most logical course of action.” Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, 1x05, “Spock Amok” 🖖🏻📺💬
“You dwell in my mind like a household spirit. All that I think is followed with, ‘I shall tell that thought to Eddi.’ Whatever I see or hear is colored by what I imagine you will say of it. What is amusing is twice so, if you have laughed at it.” Emma Bull, War for the Oaks 📚💬
“…embodied writing is not in opposition to political writing. In fact, it is the kind of political writing that I am most interested in reading.” Melissa Febos, Body Work 💬
“As we honor the lives that have been given, let us also be grateful to be still on the journey.” “The enemy doesn’t care about my feelings, Captain, so I don’t waste my time having any.”
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, “Memento Mori” 🖖🏻💬
“…is that not what a Scholar does? Question the world, examine it from every angle, and marvel at the wonder of it all?”
- Natasha Inwood, “The Road to Fjallmark,” Wyngraf Volume 1 💬📚
💬📺🖖🏻 “Exhilaration enhances the absorption of knowledge.” Picard, 2x01, “The Stargazer” [Cool how this sums up my whole deal.]
💬📺🖖🏻 “The part of me that really wants is the part that has to wait in line.” Picard, 2x01, “The Stargazer”
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The life of the mind tends to ignore the body, but our bodies aren’t so easily avoided. - Kelly J. Baker in Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in Academia, reflecting on bell hooks’s Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
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Explaining away the plight of adjuncts as brainwashed dupes ignores the structural realities of the disastrous academic job market. - Kelly J. Baker, Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in Academia
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One of [the] things about the “love professions,” which includes academia, it is really easy to forget that you are a worker. But when people remember that they are workers, they can make life better for themselves. - Miya Tokumitsu, interviewed by Kelly J. Baker in Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in Academia
Accepting death doesn’t mean that you won’t be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, unburdened by bigger existential questions like “Why do people die?” and “Why is this happening to me?” Death isn’t happening to you. Death is happening to us all. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory
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The great achievements of humanity were born out of the deadlines imposed by death. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory
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We must be brave enough to look at our own academic systems, if we plan to make them just and equitable. - Kelly J. Baker, Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in Academia
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The concept of the body as canvas becomes more powerful if the canvas is dead. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory
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We are all just future corpses. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory
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Encountering a corpse forced the man who would be Buddha to see life as a process of unpredictable and constant change. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory
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