What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.
Scarlett ThomasTags: consciousness seeing physics
But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.
Scarlett ThomasTags: science metaphysics artistic
If someone who had given up his whole life to thinking about goodness and rightness and truth and still expected nuns to cook him his fish fingers (because after all, nuns haven't got anything else better to do, and none of them are ever going to be priests or become the Pope, because women aren't good enough for that), then something was very wrong. How could he have missed the bit about everyone being equal in the eyes of God?
Scarlett ThomasTags: religion
Some writers, notably Anton Chekov, argue that all characters must be admirable, because once we've looked at anyone deeply enough and understood their motivation we must identify with them rather than judge them.
Scarlett ThomasTags: writing characters heroes villains
The sky was the colour of sad weddings.
Scarlett ThomasI drove out of Dartmouth and after a while Start Bay emerged out of the brightening gloom like the end of a set of parentheses in a book about the natural world. Inside the parentheses was a story about the sea. Outside them, the land: green, red and brown fields, and hills curling over the landscape. I saw small, delicate clumps of snowdrops, big rough patches of gorse, and along the thin road, houses with yellow roses and mimosa growing in their gardens.
Scarlett ThomasTags: cities-spaces-places
I always got a bit pissed off with those broadsheet sceptics who make their living being passionately angry about homeopathy, God, synchronicity or whatever, because it's as if they can't get past their emotions, and in their rage they become as faith-driven as the beliefs they criticise. I always said they give scientists a bad name. After all, science has to be about asking unthinkable questions, not closing down debate.
Scarlett ThomasTags: religion atheism skepticism scepticism skeptics sceptics
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