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“The blooper’ as Watson described it, 'was too unbelievable to keep secret for more than a few minutes.’ He dashed over to a chemist friend in the neighboring lab to show him Pauling’s structure. The chemist concurred, 'The giant [Pauling] had forgotten elementary college chemistry.’ Watson told Crick, and both took off for the Eagle, their favorite pub, where they celebrated Pauling’s failure with shots of schadenfreude infused whiskey.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

“But like a lot of people whose vocation it is to change the world he proved to be, in person, outrageously petty.”
― Zadie Smith, Swing Time

“Each of us must find a way to love the world. You have found yours.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings

“Because once we feel, know, and dare to imagine more for ourselves, we cannot unfeel, unknow, or unimagine. There is no going back.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed