Quotes

To recap: work that builds bridges between disparate pieces of knowledge is less likely to be funded, less likely to appear in famous journals,

Yet as the problem has grown, the pharmaceutical industry has retreated from trying to create new antibiotics. “It’s just too expensive for them,” Kinch

The true poetry in life is the dance between your mind and your soul. – Old quote I had in paper files

“The talking, instead of enhancing the picture, simply annoys,” Variety wrote after one demonstration in Chicago. “The general verdict was that the Edison pictures

compare the demonic Mullohand pictured on Chinatown with the heroic one in The Mirage factory

a professor of neurology at the University of Lisbon, Egas Moniz, decided to try again and began experimentally cutting the frontal lobes of schizophrenics

One of the great (and, it must be said, most written about) events in early neuroscience occurred in 1848 in rural Vermont when a

Researchers also sometimes find it useful to distinguish between recall memory, which is what you can remember spontaneously—the kinds of things you know when

Just look around you now. The eyes send a hundred billion signals to the brain every second. But that’s only part of the story.

“Up until 1865 medicine was almost completely ineffectual where it wasn’t positively harmful.” Bryson, Bill. The Body (p. 129). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle