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Gary F. Jones

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My life often seems like a testament to wishful thinking and bad judgement, although my wife of 40 years says she knows of nothing in the record to justify such unfettered optimism.

I was raised on a dairy farm in Wisconsin, where I spent most of my time doing stupid things and catching hell from my Dad. I spent more years in college than I care to think about to become a veterinarian. After that, I spent my time doing things a smart man wouldn’t and getting chewed out by my clients, WI dairy farmers. I made a foolish mistake while camping with the family and spent a summer being treated in the burn unit of our local hospital.

I'd always wanted to go into research, and it looked like I'd better do it quickly before I crippled or killed myself
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“That was my first big lesson when I started practicing veterinary medicine. The formal education a person had wasn’t as important as when he quit learning.”
Gary F. Jones, Doc's Codicil

“We scatter wisdom through our libraries that it may be ignored by our children.”
Gary F. Jones

“At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.”
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome—not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.”
Thomas H. Huxley, Agnosticism and Christianity and Other Essays

“It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.”
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“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“The mind is a terrible thing!”
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