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• Scientific innovation sometimes sounds like poetry, and I would claim that it is, at least in the earliest stages.
  The ideal scientist can be said to think like a poet, work like a clerk, and write like a journalist....
• The unique operations of the (human) brain are the result of natural selection operating through the filter of culture.
  They have suspended us between the two antipodal ideals of nature and machine, forest and city, the natural and the artifactual, relentlessly seeking, in the words of geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, an equilibrium not of this world....
• Perhaps the most widespread illusion is that if we were in power we would behave very differently from those who now hold it -- whe
  in truth, in order to get power we would have to become very much like them....
• Kamin's Fifth Law Purchasing power of currency is always lost far more rapidly than ever regained.
  (Those who expect even fluctuations in both directions play a losing game.)...
• page 46 ...a report citing a study by Dr. Thomas C.
  Chalmers, of the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, which compared two groups that were being used to test the theory that ascorbic acid is a cold preventative....
• Modern biology has been built upon two great ideas.
  The first, a product of the nineteenth century, is that all life descended from elementary, single- celled organisms by means of natural selection....
• Our schizophrenic societies progress by knowledge but survive on inspiration derived from the very beliefs which that knowledge erodes.
  I suggest that the paradox can be at least intellectually resolved, not all at once but eventually and with consequences difficult to perfect, if we pay due attention to the sociobiology of religion....
• There is a new product on the market for those who are fighting a losing battle with roaches.
  It's called "Instant Arson....