For scientists, reality is not optional.

“On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back …”

“War is the supreme mathematics problem. It strains our skulls, yet we work out …”

“It was his habit, when he rewrote anything, to shed himself of all earlier vers…”

“I felt emptied-out and singing with echoes, unrecognizable to myself: that part…”