(October 18, 2016 at 3:54 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I could make anyone look stupid if I could interpose my commentary line-by-line and shear off context.
Sure, but the point still stands that you don't have to make any of them look stupid. They do that just fine on their own.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell