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Twist

2017-02-12 · 3,116 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

Twist — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more." – Nikola Tesl
Twist — pen and ink drawing

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"Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more." – Nikola Tesla

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment." – Arthur Conan Doyle, 'A Study in Scarlet' (1887).

"Happy the Cicadas live, since they all have voiceless wives." – Xenarchus, quoted in Charles Darwin 'Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex' (1876).

"The Sphinx atropos squeakes when hurt, nearly as loud as a mouse, which, when uttered in the most plaintive tone, naturally shocks the human heart, and makes it shudder at the thought of destroying inoffensive animals merely for the sake of curiosity. I cannot help…

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