"Intensified effort revealed that even the supposedly simple amoeba was a complex, self-operating chemical factory. The notion that he was a simple blob, the discovery of whose chemical composition would enable us instantly to set the life process operation, turned out to be, at best, a monstrous caricature of the truth.
With the failure of these many efforts science was left in the somewhat embarrassing position of having to postulate theories of living origins which it could not demonstrate. After having chided the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create a mythology of its own: namely the assumption that what, after long effort, could not be proved to take place today had, in truth, taken place in the primeval past."
-Loren Eiseley
I filled the sketchbook, so for now enjoy these last 70 or so excerpts. I may begin working on a new blog, but I will be taking a break from this one for a little while. Hope you've enjoyed visiting my Mad World. Sincerely, Aloysius
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