Trusted with a department chairmanship, he used his powers to try and destroy anyone whose productivity threatened the warm, comfortable puddle of mediocrity over which he ruled. 

There are many such. I especially loved his description of the scientific method as something slow, laborious, but invincible. 

What do I know, but I still think that floating Venusian cities taking advantage of comfortable temperatures at one earth atmosphere pressure, sending occasional robots to the surface to mine materials that can't be extracted from the atmosphere, might be a thing 

So vividly reminds me of a dear friend I lived with and was engaged to for four years back in the Jurassic. We’ve moved on but still love each other. “Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, nor bends with the remover to remove.”

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And as always, my lecture covered metabolic allometry and the correct analysis of metabolic data for animals with different body masses. Of course, unlike the legacy companies, we will never divide metabolic data by body mass, disproven since 1849! 2/2

This is so, so sad. And so unnecessary. What a tragedy  for common sense, reason and simple decency. If I were lucky enough to be Canadian I would probably feel the same way. 

She has a way with words.