“The
nails that Cook’s men traded with the Tahitian dancing girls,
while on an expedition to measure the distance of the sun, were, themselves,
the shards of ancient suns.”
“But where there is enigma there is also the promise of discovery:
A paradox may signal an inadequacy in the way we are looking at a question,
thereby suggesting a new and more fruitful way of approaching it.”
—Timothy Ferris
Coming of Age in the Milkyway