Javelin Hands
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“The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.”
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“Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.”
― Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
― Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
“In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.”
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“I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.”
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“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
― The Writing Life
― The Writing Life
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