Sublime

The book

we cannot assume that everything interesting is at the same scale as ourselves.

but now we tend to think more in terms of fertile circumstances, wherein uncountable numbers of minds contribute to a river of innovation.

McClintock, Prusiner, and Marshall offered projective thinking, suspending their disbelief regarding scientific views accepted at the time.

“To accomplish the extraordinary, you must seek extraordinary people.”

society with channels of feedback that maximize human flourishing will have mechanisms in place,

people are cultural beings. They can’t help themselves.

Others, including Priestley and both Darwins, used their commonplace books as a repository for a vast miscellany of hunches.