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Sam Kean has 9 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched…
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Lithium tweaks many mood-altering chemicals in the brain, and its effects are complicated. Most interesting, lithium seems to reset the body’s circadian…
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Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.
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So if big enough droplets fell far enough fast enough, someone floating right near the metallic hydrogen layer inside Jupiter maybe, just…
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Mendeleev, unlike the squeamish Meyer, had balls enough to predict that new elements would be dug up. Look harder, you chemists and…
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If anything runs deeper than a mathematician’s love of variables, it’s a scientist’s love of constants.
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Art, in other words, betrays a sexy mental fitness.
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Because our lungs regularly deal with carbon dioxide, they see nothing wrong with absorbing its cousin, SiO2, which can be fatal. Many…
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Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms…
— Henri Poincare
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I've had experiences in my life that leave no doubt in my mind about the fact that God exists. I'm quite willing…
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We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to…
— Robert R. McCammon
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Once I got into space, I was feeling very comfortable in the universe. I felt like I had a right to be…
— Mae Jemison
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Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a…
— Edward Bellamy
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If there is a god, he is not only a wizard at leaving clues behind. More than anything, he's a master of…
— Jostein Gaarder
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For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness…
— Ann Druyan
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And that was it; it was so easy for her. My own memories did not even belong to me. But I knew…
— Sarah Dessen
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