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• You understand human nature and sympathize with its weakness.
• Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the world.
  (1862) -- Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918)...
• How does one determine the sex of a chromosome? Take its genes off.
• One does evil enough when one does nothing good. German Proverb
• Periphrasis is the putting of things in a round-about way.
  The cost may be upwards of a figure rather below 10m#....
• Mercury: (From L. Mercurius, the swift messenger of the gods) Element No.
  80, so named because of the speed of which one of its compounds (calomel, Hg2Cl2) goes through the human digestive tract....
• Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
  -- Chuang Tzu...
• The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all eve
  the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature....
• The human race has been fascinated by sharks for as long as I can remember.
  Just like the bluebird feeding its young, or the spider struggling to weave its perfect web, or the buttercup blooming in spring, the shark reveals to us yet another of the infinite and wonderful facets of nature, namely the facet that it can bite your head off....