Sunday, January 05, 2014
Your Lodestar
Edward O. Wilson, Biophilia (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984; rpt. 1996), p. 65:
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You start by loving a subject. Birds, probability theory, explosives, stars, differential equations, storm fronts, sign language, swallowtail butterflies—the odds are that the obsession will have begun in childhood. The subject will be your lodestar and give sanctuary in the shifting mental universe.
