#ms

Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#because #behavioural #bunch #conclusion #got

People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#even #hypothetical #interactions #molecules #more

The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#every #goddamn #horror #look #me

So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#control #environmentalist #everything #happens #himself

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#confirms #course #democracies #different #handicap

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#against #baby #biological #blind #desperate

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#goal #limit #line #most #notion

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#except #good #himself #other #person

Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#clash #colors #just #others #reconcile

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose. ↗