One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it. — Alec Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well. — Alec Wilkinson Copy Share Image
One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it,… — Alec Wilkinson Copy Share Image
I don’t think there is any mystery to understanding the passionate feelings people have for guns. Nobody really believes it’s about maintaining a militia.… — Alec Wilkinson Copy Share Image
“Somewhere Chesterton writes--I think it is Chesterton--that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn’t deliver him to.” — Alec Wilkinson Copy Share Image
