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"Three years, eleven countries, 1,200 families and 14,000 kilometers of adventure in the Cradle of Life."
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"Each inaugural address is compared to the five addresses nearest to it in time, the ten nearest addresses, and all addresses in U.S. history."
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"We’re all stumbling around in the dark, grabbing as much of the elephant as we can. It is unseemly to mock one another’s shortsightedness."
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"If there is one conclusion to be drawn from the life of Leonardo, it is that procrastination reveals the things at which we are most gifted — the things we truly want to do. Procrastination is a calling away from something that we do against our desires toward something that we do for pleasure, in that joyful state of self-forgetful inspiration that we call genius."
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"Aesthetic satisfaction comes from an apprehension of how those themes and transformations relate to each other, or of what Brock calls their 'relative complexity.' Basically – and this is the nub of it – 'if the theme is simple, then we are most satisfied when its echoes are complex . . . and vice versa.'"
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"Perhaps surprisingly for such a well-known part of the scriptures of three great religions, Christianity, Judaism and Islam, there are two very different candidates within the Bible for the title of 'The Ten Commandments'. These are known as the Ethical Decalogue and the Ritual Decalogue. The Ethical Decalogue1 is the more familiar of the two, with its injunctions against killing and covetousness. The Ritual Decalogue2 is far less known, and – as the name suggests – is mostly concerned with sacrifices and ceremonies."
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