“Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible… We have to cure ourselves of the itch for absolute knowledge and power.”| The Marginalian
How the invisible hand of the clock powered the Industrial Revolution and sparked the Information Age.| The Marginalian
What a 13,000-year-old eucalyptus tree reveals about the meaning of human life.| The Marginalian
“To maintain the state of doubt and to carry on systematic and protracted inquiry — these are the essentials of thinking.”| The Marginalian
“The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation… Never to get lost is not to live.”| The Marginalian
“To lose the appetite for meaning we call thinking and cease to ask unanswerable questions [is to] lose not only the ability to produce those thought-things that we call works of art but also…| The Marginalian
“If we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed.”| The Marginalian
How to become an “antischolar” in a culture that treats knowledge as “an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order.”| The Marginalian
