
“Geologic history shows us that life is only a short episode between two eternities of death, and that, even in this episode, conscious thought has lasted and will last only a moment. Thought is only a gleam in the midst of a long night.
But it is this gleam which is everything.”
Henri Poincaré
more infosource: The Value of Science (New York: The Science Press, 1907), 142.
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category: death, geology, gleam, history, life
medium: nonfiction
via: Michael Deas

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