#log

You see, proteins, as I probably needn't tell you, are immensely complicated groupings of amino acids and certain other specialized compounds, arranged in intricate three-dimensional patterns that are as unstable as sunbeams on a cloudy day. It is this instability that is life, since it is forever changing its position in an effort to maintain its identity--in the manner of a long rod balanced on an acrobat's nose. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#ontology #change

I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse? ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#blood #body #pulse #theology #theology

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#art form #black #form #literature #rigorous

It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable. ↗

— Graham Greene

#sociology

False fears are a plague, a modern plague! ↗

— Michael Crichton

#sociology

Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#sociology

We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong. ↗

— Karl Popper

#sociology

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside. ↗

— Stephen King

#sociology #sociology

Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man. ↗

— Richard Matheson

#sociology

They were sorting, or classifying. It's easy-anyone dressed funny is the enemy, especially if they reject your supremacy or do not acknowledge school as entertainment. If the enemy tries to look like you and act like you, only in more affordable clothes, that person is still the enemy, only of a more contemptible, less terrifying variety- ↗

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

#sociology #sociology