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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

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

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

Scientists have continued to tinker with different elements and have learned new ways to store and deliver energy. — Sam Kean

Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve. — Sam Kean

Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells. — Sam Kean

The body tends to treat elements in the same column of the periodic table as equivalents. — Sam Kean

I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses. — Sam Kean

Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been worth it. — 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

Biologists summarize these hypothalamic duties as the "four F's" of animal behavior - feeding, fleeing, fighting, and, well, sexual congress. — Sam Kean

Art, in other words, betrays a sexy mental fitness. — Sam Kean

Negative experiences can wire neurons together, too. — Sam Kean

A fully plastic brain learns everything and remembers nothing. — Sam Kean

The inability to trace DNA to actual diseases has serious consequences. As does the opposite problem - not being able to trace diseases back to DNA. — Sam Kean

Germans at the time believed, a little oddly, that dyes killed germs by turning the germs' vital organs the wrong color. — Sam Kean

Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do. — Sam Kean

Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in. — Sam Kean

Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius. — Sam Kean

X-rays revealed that some people were born without a corpus callosum, and they seemed just fine. — Sam Kean

DNA is a 'thing' - a chemical that sticks to your fingers. — Sam Kean

Cathedrals of Science: The Personalities and Rivalries That Made Modern Chemistry — Sam 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

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

We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology. — 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