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Sam Kean quotes: 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.

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 quotes: In 'The Violinist's Thumb,' I talk about the poignancy of cells leaking across the placenta into both the mother and the child.

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 quotes: Thirteen aluminum atoms grouped together in the right way do a killer bromine, the two entities indistinguishable in chemical reactions.

Thirteen aluminum atoms grouped together in the right way do a killer bromine, the two entities indistinguishable in chemical reactions.

Sam Kean quotes: Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.

Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.

Sam Kean quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.

Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.

Sam Kean quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: If anything runs deeper than a mathematician's love of variables, it's a scientist's love of constants.

If anything runs deeper than a mathematician's love of variables, it's a scientist's love of constants.

Sam Kean quotes: Aluminium's sixty-year reign as the world's most precious substance was glorious, but soon an American chemist ruined everything.

Aluminium's sixty-year reign as the world's most precious substance was glorious, but soon an American chemist ruined everything.

Sam Kean quotes: (Rutherford himself was fond of saying, "In science, there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting" - words

(Rutherford himself was fond of saying, "In science, there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting" - words

Sam Kean quotes: Junk DNA - or, as scientists call it nowadays, noncoding DNA - remains a mystery: No one knows how much of it is essential for life.

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 quotes: Scientists have continued to tinker with different elements and have learned new ways to store and deliver energy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sam Kean quotes: Among physicists and chemists, cold fusion - nuclear fusion at close to room temperature - enjoys a reputation about on par with creationism.

Among physicists and chemists, cold fusion - nuclear fusion at close to room temperature - enjoys a reputation about on par with creationism.

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

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

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

Art, in other words, betrays a sexy mental fitness.

Sam Kean quotes: Negative experiences can wire neurons together, too.

Negative experiences can wire neurons together, too.

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

A fully plastic brain learns everything and remembers nothing.

Sam Kean quotes: 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sam Kean quotes: Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.

Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sam Kean quotes: After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.

After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.

Sam Kean quotes: 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

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

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

Sam Kean quotes: B2FH traces these various fusion reactions and explains the recipe for producing everything up to iron: it's nothing less than evolution for elements.

B2FH traces these various fusion reactions and explains the recipe for producing everything up to iron: it's nothing less than evolution for elements.