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The brain, which is plastic when young, must be exposed to certain sights early in life, or it will remain blind to those sights forever.
— Sam Kean
More congenial to me than dictators
Are rickshaw-runners.
If they break my neck
It will be by accident,
Not as a matter of state policy. — William Kean Seymour
Are rickshaw-runners.
If they break my neck
It will be by accident,
Not as a matter of state policy. — William Kean Seymour
Kindness is in a prison till it finds
Release in words or deeds. — William Kean Seymour
Release in words or deeds. — William Kean Seymour
A famous actor, Edmund Kean, on his deathbed, was reported to have said, "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard."
— Melvin Helitzer
In 'The Violinist's Thumb,' I talk about the poignancy of cells leaking across the placenta into both the mother and the child.
— Sam Kean
Thirteen aluminum atoms grouped together in the right way do a killer bromine, the two entities indistinguishable in chemical reactions.
— Sam Kean
Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
— Sam Kean
If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless.
— Sam Kean
Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.
— Sam Kean
Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.
— Sam Kean
America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpassed it after the chaos of World War II.
— Sam Kean
If anything runs deeper than a mathematician's love of variables, it's a scientist's love of constants.
— Sam Kean
Aluminium's sixty-year reign as the world's most precious substance was glorious, but soon an American chemist ruined everything.
— Sam Kean
(Rutherford himself was fond of saying, "In science, there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting" - words
— Sam Kean
Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
— Sam Kean
Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been worth it.
— Sam Kean
Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.
— Sam Kean
Among physicists and chemists, cold fusion - nuclear fusion at close to room temperature - enjoys a reputation about on par with creationism.
— Sam Kean
Scientists have continued to tinker with different elements and have learned new ways to store and deliver energy.
— Sam Kean
Junk DNA - or, as scientists call it nowadays, noncoding DNA - remains a mystery: No one knows how much of it is essential for life.
— Sam Kean
Biologists summarize these hypothalamic duties as the "four F's" of animal behavior - feeding, fleeing, fighting, and, well, sexual congress.
— Sam Kean
read the brilliant compilation of testimonies in Leslie Kean's book: "UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record." The
— John DeSouza
The body tends to treat elements in the same column of the periodic table as equivalents.
— Sam Kean
B2FH traces these various fusion reactions and explains the recipe for producing everything up to iron: it's nothing less than evolution for elements.
— Sam Kean
I eat you, life; you make me living eat.
— William Kean Seymour
For a long time, I kept an eye out for element eighty at school and in books, as you might watch for a childhood friend's name
— Sam Kean
Maman," she shouted. "Wait for us.
— Catherine Kean
After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.
— Sam Kean
Kindness is goodness hidden in the heart
More often than declared in speech. — William Kean Seymour
More often than declared in speech. — William Kean Seymour
In a cool solitude of trees Where leaves and birds a music spin, Mind that was weary is at ease, New rhythms in the soul begin.
— William Kean Seymour
X-rays revealed that some people were born without a corpus callosum, and they seemed just fine.
— Sam Kean
Do not be too sure, young fellows,
That you are better than your ancestors. — William Kean Seymour
That you are better than your ancestors. — William Kean Seymour
Germans at the time believed, a little oddly, that dyes killed germs by turning the germs' vital organs the wrong color.
— Sam Kean