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As we parted at the Natural History Museum in London, I asked Richard Fortey how science ensures that when one person goes there's someone ready to take his place. He chuckled rather heartily at my naiveté. 'I'm afraid it's not as if we have substitutes sitting on the bench somewhere waiting to be called in to play. When a specialist retires or, even more unfortunately, dies, that can bring a stop to things in that field, sometimes for a very long while.' And I suppose that's why you value someone who spends forty-two years studying a single species of plant, even if it doesn't produce anything terribly new?' 'Precisely,' he said, 'precisely.' And he really seemed to mean it.


Bill Bryson


#science #nature

It is a scientifically proven fact that all scientifically proven facts have originated from original and thereby unproven theories.


Silvia Hartmann


#science #scientism #science

You see, because [Norfolk is] stuck out here on the east, on this hump jutting into the sea, it's not on the way to anywhere. People going north and south, they bypass it altogether. For that reason, it's a peaceful corner of England, rather nice. But it's also something of a lost corner.' Someone claimed after the lesson that Miss Emily had said Norfolk was England's 'lost corner' because that was were all the lost property found in the country ended up. Ruth said one evening, looking out at the sunset, that 'when we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We still had that last bit of comfort, thinking one day, when we were grown up, and we were free to travel the country, we could always go and find it again in Norfolk.


Kazuo Ishiguro


#heartbreak #loss #norfolk #rediscovery #search

Childhood trauma does not come in one single package.


Dr. Asa Don Brown


#psychologist #psychology #ptsd #recovery #research

If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.


Criss Jami


#athletes #athletics #competition #confidence #improvement

There are certain questions that scientists may not ask, or, more accurately, for some questions, there are certain answers that scientists must a priori preclude from consideration.


Satoshi Kanazawa


#research #science #society #sociology #sociology

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.


Lynn Abbey


#book #corner #curl #dusty #habit

Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.


Tom Allen


#cell research #cures #diseases #finding #holds

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.


Aeschylus


#better #counsel #ever #good #nor

One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure.


Harriet Van Horne


#buried #channels #dark #searching #treasure






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