Power Is Neither Male Or Female.

Expectation Works In Mysterious Ways---and Totally Unconsciously.

...scientific Power Is Like Inherited Wealth: Attained Without Discipline. You Read What Others Have Done, And You Take The Next Step. You Can Do It Very Young...there Is No Mastery, Old Scientists Are Ignored. There Is No Humility Before Nature...its A Form Of Inherited Wealth. And You Know What Assholes Congenitally Rich People Are.

Grant Knew That People Could Not Imagine Geological Time. Human Life Was Lived On Another Scale Of Time Entirely. An Apple Turned Brown In A Few Minutes. Silverware Turned Black In A Few Days. A Compost Heap Decayed In A Season. A Child Grew Up In A Decade. None Of These Everyday Human Experiences Prepared People To Be Able To Imagine The Meaning Of Eighty Million Years - The Length Of Time That Had Passed Since This Little Animal Had Died.

The System Didn't Screw You. The System Revealed You.

You've Never Heard Of Chaos Theory? Non-linear Equations? Strange Attractors? Ms. Sattler, I Refuse To Believe You're Not Familiar With The Concept Of Attraction.