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• Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the… — Oliver Sacks
• Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work. ... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An… — Stephen King
• When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the… — Rollo May
• I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a bench… — Irving Howe
• Our knowledge of stars and interstellar matter must be based primarily on the electromagnetic radiation which reaches us. Nature has… — Lyman Spitzer
• The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of… — Hugo Ball
• The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity,… — Morris Kline
• To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption… — Unknown Author
• I am troubled by the lack of common sense regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Our greatest greenhouse gas is water. Atmospheric… — Michael Myers
• Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay. — Richard M. Weaver
• In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot… — Hyman Minsky
• The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass… — John Dewey

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