Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. – Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), Fiesco, translated from German
There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasnt happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals. – Jonathan Safran Foer
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them. – Oscar Wilde
