“He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.”
David Levithan (1972) American author and editor
Source: Two Boys Kissing
1970s, Forces interview (1973)
“He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.”
David Levithan (1972) American author and editor
Source: Two Boys Kissing
Kurien Kunnumpuram (1931–2018) Indian theologian
Kunnumpuram, K. (2005) Towards a New Humanity: Reflections on the Church's Mission in India Today. Mumbai: St Pauls
On the Church
Benjamin Peirce (1809–1880) American mathematician
Ben Yamen's Song of Geometry (1853)
Context: Throughout nature the omnipresent beautiful revealed an all-pervading language spoken to the human mind, and to man's highest capacity of comprehension. By whom was it spoken? Whether by the gods of the ocean, or the land, by the ruling divinities of the sun, moon, and stars, or by the dryads of the forest and the nymphs of the fountain, it was one speech and its written cipher was cabalistic. The cabala were those of number, and even if they transcended the gemetricl skill of the Rabbi and the hieroglyphical learning of the priest of Osiris, they were, distinctly and unmistakably, expressions of thought uttered to mind by mind; they were the solutions of mathematical problems of extraordinary complexity.
“In a fantastic world, the fantastic had become merely ordinary.”
Edmund Cooper book All Fools' Day
All Fools' Day (1966)
“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Ursula Goodenough (1943) American biologist
As quoted in The Faith of Scientists : In Their Own Words (2008) by Nancy K. Frankenberry, p. 491