...[M]usic itself is a ghost. You can’t touch it or see it but you can feel it and you can measure those feelings in vibrations and these vibrations continue after the music stops, echoing and reverberating, reminding you: remember me."  --Denise S Robbins, "noticements: My belly button mole is a ghost named Boris," Mar 22, 2026  

https://denisesrobbins.substack.com/p/my-belly-button-mole-is-a-ghost-named

“They are deceiv’d that acquiesce to things which they have heard, and believe not what they have seen.”  --Thomas Bartholin, The Anatomical History (1653)

“About five times as many pages are being added to the classified universe than are being brought to the storehouses of human learning, including all the books and journals on any subject in any language collected in the largest repositories on the planet.”  --Peter Galison

"Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we think we can think."  --Werner Heisenberg 

"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong."  --Leo Calvin Rosten

"Conscience doth make cowards of us all.”  --Shakespeare, Hamlet

“The great lie of war is that you will get what you want out of it.”  --Ezra Klein