"Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology."

-- Serge Haroche

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“My first book, 'Fast Forward', was about growing up in the shadow of Hollywood and how kids are affected by the culture of materialism and the cult of celebrity, and I've often felt the reason my work has an audience in the U.K. is because it's everything the British love to hate about the Americans.”
“The general at the radar screenRubbed his hands with glee,And grinning pressed the buttonAnd started world war three.”
“Be yourself-- Matthew Clairmont. Complete with your sharp vampire teeth and your scary mother, your test tubes full of blood and your DNA, your infuriating bossiness and your maddening sense of smell.”

Source : Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.297, Penguin
“Renegade scientists and totalitarian loonies are not the folks most likely to abuse genetic engineering. You and I are-not because we are bad but because we want to do good. In a world dominated by competition, parents understandably want to give their kids every advantage. ... The most likely way for eugenics to enter into our lives is through the front door as nervous parents ... will fall over one another to be first to give Junior a better set of genes.”
“It isnâ€™t only art that is incompatible with happiness, itâ€™s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.”
“One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think â€¦”
“The examen is a form of personal inventory. At dayâ€™s end, spend time in prayerful reflection on your day: your comings and goings, routines and disruptions, work and play, discoveries and disappointments. Think about who you met, or missed. Think about your moments of aloneness. In all, ask two questions: when was I most alive, most present, most filled and fulfilled today? And when was I most taxed, stressed, distracted, depleted today? A simpler, and more spiritually focused, version of those questions: when did I feel closest to God, and when farthest?”
“You don't really get to know people behind the scenes. One can assume that it's out there, but I have no idea at the end of the day. I hope not.”

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