Thursday, 18 November 2021

We who work in vision

"A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives."

Speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1967.

George Wald, American scientist and Nobel laureate (1906-1997)

Corps memory

  She turns towards me while opening the door — The two cavities under her collarbones, dark under the scorching lightbulb — — Her shirt...