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title: All the light we cannot see
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# All the light we cannot see
## Quotes

The entropy of a closed system never decreases

Sublimity: "the instant when on on ething is about to become something else. Day to night, catepillar to butterfly. Fawn to doe. Experiment to result. Boy to man"

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	"Do you know what happens, etienne, " says madame manec from 
the other side of the kitchen, "when you drop a frog in a pot of boiling 
water?"
	"You will tell us, I am sure."
	"It jumps out. But do you what what happens when you put the 
frog in a pot of cool water and then slowly bring it to a boil? You know 
what happens then?"
	Marie-Laure waits. The potatoes steam.
	Madame Manec says, "The frog cooks."

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but the are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.