Floyd E. Bloom famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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As we begin the 21st century, the Hubble space telescope is providing us with information about as yet uncharted regions of the universe and the promise that we may learn something about the origin of the cosmos. This same spirit of adventure is also being directed to the most complex structure that exists in the universe - the human brain.
-- Floyd E. Bloom -
The study of the human brain and its disease remains one of the greatest scientific and philosophical challenges ever undertaken.
-- Floyd E. Bloom
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When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
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Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.
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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.
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Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.
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When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
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