"Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius." — Sam Kean
"Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius."
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9 Quotes by Sam Kean
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In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War…
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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…
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So if big enough droplets fell far enough fast enough, someone floating right near the metallic hydrogen layer inside Jupiter…
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Mendeleev, unlike the squeamish Meyer, had balls enough to predict that new elements would be dug up. Look harder, you…
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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…
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Iron is the final peal of a star’s natural life.
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Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let…
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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow…
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
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