Quotation

...It’s not a person you wish to fight, Madame, it’s a system. How do you fight a system?” “You try.” === “Can deaf people hear their heartbeat, Frau Elena?” “Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle, Frau Elena?” === ...plants eat light, in much the way we eat food. === What do we call visible light? We call it color. But the electromagnetic spectrum runs to zero in one direction and infinity in the other, so really, children, mathematically, all of light is invisible. === Open your eyes, concludes the man, and see what you can with them before they close forever,... === There are ninety-six thousand kilometers of blood vessels in the human body, children! Almost enough to wind around the earth two and a half times . . .