A Dickensian Interlude
Sep. 29th, 2009 10:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowfireflame"It is the safest of times, it is the riskiest of times.... What the Dickens is going on here?"
--Denton Morrison, on chemicals, technology, and risk, quoted in National Academy of Sciences, Improving Risk Communication, 1989
Other than the fact that I am obsessed with Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, I like this quote because it sounds like something Pollan might say if he were a stuck-up English major.
--Denton Morrison, on chemicals, technology, and risk, quoted in National Academy of Sciences, Improving Risk Communication, 1989
Other than the fact that I am obsessed with Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, I like this quote because it sounds like something Pollan might say if he were a stuck-up English major.
