Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Cloning a Mammoth

Tags: nature, news, science, wildlife
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ysabetwordsmith

December 5 2011, 18:55:47 UTC 9 years ago

I find that science makes life more magical, not less. And from a magical standpoint, it makes your spellcraft stronger; whereas magic is ideal for explaining the parts of science that are otherly logical.

There was a wonderful line from the novel Fallen Angels in which several fans were discussing the prismatic effects of breath in very cold air: "I think a cloud of microscopic ice crystals is as magical as an unexplained rainbow any day."