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I flew to Oklahoma to get him. The flat where he was born was above a Tulsa veterinary clinic, and it housed a chaotic perpetual motion machine of a dozen others like him plus one cranky dachshund. His father proudly wore a green diaper festooned with bowtied bones as though it certified his snorting, slobbering monarchy. He gave the puppy a final approving sniff and me a blast of his foul breath
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This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder
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Making a Living in Europe: Human Geographies of Economic Change
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1997
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Marquetry Techniques
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1993
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The North-South Divide: Regional Change in Britain in the 1980s
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Managing the City
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“perhaps there is no purer form of love than science. It is an act of profound attention and empathy. It requires a willingness to come back and back and back to a problem, no matter how numerous or embarrassing your failures, in the quest for a solution. Science is the discipline of figuring out the things one can change and learning how to work with the things one can't.”
― This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder
― This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder
“I looked at Mount Neva and thought about how for me, Diana had brought a new twist to our lives being just tiny blips in the grand arc of time. She reminded me that while our flashes may be brief, some of them are impossibly bright, and everything that matters is contained in the ways your own light sparks the ones that lie in everybody else.”
― This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder
― This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder
“Science, though, tells us–hell, it tries to hammer home–that correlation is not causation. Which in turn lets us see that two souls can be correlative in life, can suffer alongside each other, without one having caused the suffering of the other. In this, we find both the limits of science–we can't control everything–and also the mercy: we don't cause everything.”
― This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder
― This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist's Path from Grief to Wonder
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