The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.

The natural history of this archipelago is very remarkable; it seems to be a little world within itself.

Certainly, no fact in the long history of the world is so startling as the wide and repeated exterminations of its inhabitants.

We needed masks. Finally, the US settles the debate on whether we're going to wear masks or not, and John Furner tells me on a Zoom, "I'm glad they decided that we need them because I bought more than a hundred million recently and they're on the way".

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.