Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence.
Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.
I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
I received thousands of letters of support from all around the world, all because I wanted to go to school.
Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in.
He told me that Francis Crick and Jim Watson had solved the structure of DNA, so we decided to go across to Cambridge to see it. This was in April of 1953.
Flowers of sin, like some black sun, Bloom in my dreams Their perfume-sodden fragrance Spreading through each heartbeat.
We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources.
We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.
We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels.
The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression.
We need scientists and mathematicians explaining why they are excited about their subjects but also why they are important for solving social problems, informing political debate and for the economy.
I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels.
The challenge for people today--and it is not and easy one--is to maintain high personal standards even while feeling that one is living in a moral sewer.
All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibility-- that is, the experience of being seen and understood.
If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.
When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.
