http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2003/08/22/smaller-victories/ faults | sins | abuses Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:08:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2003/08/22/smaller-victories/#comment-170 Chris Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/archives/2003/08/22/smaller-victories/#comment-170 That's precisely the blurb I wanted to ask permission to steal. In return, I offer you this from Dr. Matt Cartmill, evolutionary anthropologist at Duke (hardly an obscure quote, but I like it for its academic universality): "As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life--so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls." That’s precisely the blurb I wanted to ask permission to steal. In return, I offer you this from Dr. Matt Cartmill, evolutionary anthropologist at Duke (hardly an obscure quote, but I like it for its academic universality): “As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life–so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.”

]]> http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2003/08/22/smaller-victories/#comment-171 Mike Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/archives/2003/08/22/smaller-victories/#comment-171 Chris -- please, feel free. And the Cartmill quotation is terrific. Chris — please, feel free. And the Cartmill quotation is terrific.

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