"The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story."

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A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain; you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links.

— Ambrose Bierce