Wednesday, July 25, 2012

On trivialities..................

Feast on two quotes taken from Stephen Jay Gould's essay, Dousing Diminutive Dennis's Debate (a learned discussion concerning the appropriate starting and ending dates of new millennia):

"First - o cursed spite - our disjointed times, and our burgeoning press, provide greatly enhanced opportunity for rehearsal of such narrishkeit ad nauseam; do we not feast upon trivialities to divert attention from the truly portentous issues that engulf us?"

"Neat, except that I think people want to argue passionately about trivial unresolvabilities - lest they be compelled to invest such rambunctious energy in real battle that might kill somebody."

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