Jeffrey Kluger Quotes
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Sadoway does more than entertain; he gives you a glimpse into the future of energy.
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When you learn conflict-resolution skills in the playroom, you then practice them on the playground, and that in turn stays with you. If you have…
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Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.
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Photography is about freezing a moment in time; McGinley's is about freezing a stage in a lifetime.
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Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct.
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The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being…
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There's no such thing as downtime for your brain.
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Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.
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Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds…
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Even the best computer in the world has no idea that it exists. You do. No one knows what creates that ineffable awareness that we're…
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Why are some people born with a fire in the belly, while others need something to get their pilot light lit?
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We pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk, yet we have a confounding habit of worrying about mere possibilities…
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There's a universe inside your head - a place of pictures and passions, of songs and sorrows. It's everything you are - and it's an…
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Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded with matching genetic…
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Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that can…
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It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed.…
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Marketers have long known that a name can make all the difference when you're trying to move the merch. The kiwifruit was once the Chinese…
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Never mind what you've heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was actually the…
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No one ever pretended that shopping for anything is a rational experience. If it were, would there be Fluffernutter? Laceless sneakers? Porkpie hats? Would the…
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Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional horror stories of…
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