“we have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire,”

“we have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire,”

How thrilling to think that something we discovered two centuries ago, something nature created more than a billion years ago when the first green plants evolved from prokaryotes, can still shimmer with mystery — a molecular microcosm of the ultimate thrill: the knowledge that however much we might uncover, nature will never cease to be filled with... See more

We have no right to name a substance long-known, and to the story of which we have added only a few facts