¹ From Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
² From The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski
³ From The First Three Minutes by Steven Weinberg
⁴ From Dinosaur in a Haystack by Stephen Jay Gould
⁵ Carl Sagan, from “Skies of Other Worlds, in Parade, 05/01/88
⁶ From The God Particle by Leon Lederman and Dick Teresi
⁷ From Black Holes by John G. Taylor
⁸ From Stephen Hawking: Quest for a Theory of Everything by Kitty Ferguson
⁹ From Blueprints by Maitland Edey and Don Johanson
¹⁰ From The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
¹¹ From “Calvin and Hobbes” by Bill Watterson, in San Antonio Express-News, 11/26/95 (ellipsis and boldface Watterson’s)
¹² William Butler Yeats, quoted by John Allen Paulos in A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
¹³ From The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion, and the Search for God by Kitty Ferguson
¹⁴ From Full House by Stephen Jay Gould
¹⁵ Carl Sagan in Contact
¹⁶ From letter to the editor from Ralph Davis in Florida Times-Union, 02/20/88
¹⁷ Letter to the editor from Rev. Rick Oberheide in Newsweek, 12/19/94
¹⁸ From A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper by John Allen Paulos
¹⁹ From “Religious right trying to take over tolerance,” column by Ellen Goodman in San Antonio Express-News, 07/28(?)/98
²⁰ From “America, a Christian nation..... Not!,” article by Ron Aaron in San Antonio Northside Recorder-Times, 09/12/96
²¹ From Science, Numbers, and I by Isaac Asimov
²² From “Fresh Voices” in Parade (San Antonio Express-News), 06/11/95
²³ seen on a bumper sticker by Cecile Richards and quoted in “Texas Freedom Network takes on Christian right,” edited by Maury Maverick, in San Antonio Express-News, 12/07/97
²⁴ From “Joe Bob’s America” by Joe Bob Briggs in San Antonio Current, 10/07/93
²⁵ From Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
²⁶ Victor Hugo, quoted by L.M. Boyd in San Antonio Express- News, 09/26/94
²⁷ From “Diversifiers play oppressors’ game,” column by Mike Greenberg in San Antonio Express-News, 09/18/94
³³ Dr. Joyce Brothers, in San Antonio Express-News, 11/26/97
³⁴ From “Sexual Separatism” by Diana Trilling in Newsweek, 06/06/94
³⁵ From Sports in America by James A. Michener
³⁶ From “Target: Men” by Delia M. Rios in San Antonio Express- News, 09/05/93
³⁷ From “Let’s stop sending boys ‘die hard’ message,” column by Kathleen Parker in San Antonio Express-News, 08/26/99
³⁸ George Toomer in Dallas Morning News
³⁹ Albert Einstein in Einstein in America by Jamie Sayen
⁴⁰ Albert Einstein, paraphrasing Jacques Loeb, in Einstein in America by Jamie Sayen
⁴¹ Jamie Sayen, Einstein in America
⁴² Jamie Sayen, Einstein in America
⁴³ From A Path Where No Man Thought by Carl Sagan and Richard Turco
⁴⁴ Jamie Sayen, Einstein in America
⁴⁵ From The Fragile Species by Lewis Thomas
⁴⁶ From The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
⁴⁷ From Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
⁴⁸ From Dinosaur in a Haystack by Stephen Jay Gould
⁴⁹ From The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion, and the Search for God by Kitty Ferguson
⁵⁰ From Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins
⁵¹ From Full House by Stephen Jay Gould
⁵² From The Fragile Species by Lewis Thomas
⁵³ From The Fragile Species by Lewis Thomas
⁵⁴ From Full House by Stephen Jay Gould
⁵⁵ From Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
⁵⁶ From Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins
⁵⁷ From The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
⁵⁸ From Science, Numbers, and I by Isaac Asimov
⁵⁹ From Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos
⁶⁰ From Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos
⁶¹ From “What TV Could Do For America,” article by Carl Sagan in Parade, 06/04/95 (in San Antonio Express-News)
⁶² Doyne Farmer (paraphrased) in Complexity by M. Mitchell Waldrop
⁶³ From Dinosaur in a Haystack by Stephen Jay Gould
⁶⁴ From A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper by John Allen Paulos
⁶⁵ Edward Fallis, letter to the editor, San Antonio Express-News, 06/18/00
⁶⁶ From “Education must take place outside schools,” article by Charles Slater, superintendent of Alamo Heights (TX) School District, in San Antonio Light, 06/14/91
⁶⁷ From Catching the Light by Arthur Zajonc
⁶⁸ Letter to the editor from Helen Giambruni in Newsweek, 09/05/94
⁶⁹ Jamie Sayen, Einstein in America
⁷⁰ Electra the dog, “Cathy” comic strip by Cathy Guisewite, 01/14/01
⁷¹ From Pieces of My Mind by Andrew A. Rooney
⁷² From “When America Lost Its Innocence—Maybe” (review of the film Quiz Show) by David Ansen, The Arts, Newsweek, 09/19/94
⁷³ From Sports in America by James A. Michener
⁷⁴ From Arts and the Man by Irwin Edman
⁷⁵ From “Arts outreach: Hardly a dent,” column by Mike Greenberg in San Antonio Express-News, 07/09/95
⁷⁶ From Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship by Robert Craft
⁷⁷ Hugh Fraser, reviewer for the Hamilton (Ontario) Spectator, quoted by Murray Ginsberg in “Canadian Scene,” from International Musician, October 1994
⁷⁸ From The Maestro Myth by Norman Lebrecht
⁷⁹ Igor Stravinsky, quoted in Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship by Robert Craft
⁸⁰ From Eight Little Piggies by Stephen Jay Gould
⁸¹ From The History of Pi by Petr Beckmann
⁸² Winston Churchill, quoted in “Dear Abby,” San Antonio Express-News, 09/26/94
⁸³ From The God Particle by Leon Lederman and Dick Teresi
⁸⁴ From Mind Tools by Rudy Rucker
⁸⁵ From Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos (ellipsis Paulos’s)
⁸⁶ From The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
⁸⁷ Ann Landers
⁸⁸ Bob Mackie, designer, quoted by Marian Christy in San Antonio Light, 01/14/90
⁸⁹ From The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
⁹⁰ Gustav Mahler, quoted by Natalie Bauer-Lechner in Recollections of Gustav Mahler
⁹¹ From Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
⁹² From Dinosaur in a Haystack by Stephen Jay Gould
⁹³ From The Fragile Species by Lewis Thomas
⁹⁴ From Science, Numbers, and I by Isaac Asimov


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