Bewilderment

The whole cosmos was infinitely less than the whole of being.

Teaching is like photosynthesis: making food from air and light.

They share a lot, astronomy and childhood. Both are voyages across huge distances. Both search for facts beyond their grasp. Both theorize wildly and let possibilities multiply without limits. Both are humbled every few weeks. Both operate out of ignorance. Both are
mystified by time. Both are forever starting out.

Imagine a planet where the past never went away but kept happening again and again, forever. That’s the planet my nine-year-old wanted to live on.

Nothing could hurt me so long as consensual reality was just a tiny atoll in an ocean without shores.

Наблюдая, как медицина терпит неудачу в том, что касалось моего ребенка, я сформулировал безумную теорию: хватит исправлять живое.

Если восемь миллионов детей принимают психоактивные препараты, значит, что-то идёт не так.

Plasticity has been docume’nted at every stage of life. Habit impedes us as we age as much as any change in innate capacity. These days we like to say that ‘mature’ is just another name for ‘lazy.’

Никто не идеален, – любила она повторять. – Но, боже мой, до чего прекрасны наши изъяны!

Он желал драмы, выяснения отношений и праведных призывов к справедливости от лица неравнодушных граждан. Но вместо этого узрел Америку.