““My dad was a different person when he lectured: his eyes sparkled, his lips turned upward… 'Think what it must have been like for Darwin, two hundred years ago. He took that voyage on the Beagle [1831] expecting to document the natural world and he stumbled across something impossible. A creature who could defy the laws of physics--straight out of the pages of mythology...In that one moment, the entire landscape of scientific investigation was drastically and irrevocably changed. The impossible became a widespread scientific reality, as omnipresent as gravity and in some cases, nearly as hard to see.””
![“My dad was a different person when he lectured: his eyes sparkled, his lips turned upward… 'Think what it must have been like for Darwin, two hundred years ago. He took that voyage on the Beagle [1831] expecting to document the natural world and he stumbled across something impossible. A creature…” quote by Jennifer Lynn Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/49c/jennifer-lynn-barnes-2448_different-person_my-dad-was-a-different-person-when-he-le_1140378.jpg)
![“My father would conclude his dissertations by saying, "Of course, [Albert] Einstein never believed in gravity. It was a distortion of space." And so my father couldn't believe that an attraction at a distance was a reality.” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/80f/paul-laffoley-7077_attraction_my-father-would-conclude-his-dissertatio_1236067.jpg)
