In "A Matter of Scale" the author Cole finds the differences between things on changing scales, from very large to microscopic, to be "magically seductive". What the essay has pointed out to me that I had missed before was things such as a giant breaking its thighs every time it walked due to the differences in size and that a flea could pull over a hundred thousand times its own weight. A new fact that would change the way I think would be how different sized animals live at different rates, but perceive life to be near the same length through chemical reactions in the body. I don't know how much knowing about how liquids stick to insects will change how I feel about flies landing in my soup, since although I will feel sorry for it, I still will feel that there should have been some sort of instinct warning it about what it was getting into. A new fact that will not change the way that I think would be how clouds stay up, since that doesn't really seem to have an obvious affect on me or how I think right now.
I think that Cole finishes with another offer to add some more validity to her statements in the essay. If she had just paraphrased Schrodinger instead it would not have done what it was meant to do, and would have blended in more with the rest of her essay. I don't think that just footnoting Schrodinger would have had nearly the same effect as what she actually did with the essay. She summarizes, quotes, and footnotes in other sections of the essay where it is not as important to have the context of the other authors, since they are to put her own work in context. Also putting in large quotes like she did at the end would ruin some of the flow of the essay.
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