Scientist in the Crib

I love this gem from The Scientist in the Crib. While most of the book is about babies, here's a paragraph about adults:

When we look attentively, carefully, and thoughtfully at the things around us, they invariably turn out to be more interesting, more orderly, more complex, more strange, and more wonderful than we would ever have imagined. That's what happened when Kepler looked carefully at the stars, when Darwin looked at finches, when Marie Curie looked at pitchblende ore.

now put it ALL together . . .

And it's also what happened when Jane Austen looked at a provincial village and Proust looked at a Madeleine cookie, when Vermeer looked at a girl making lace, and Juan Gris looked at a café table.

. .. yeah