"Hydrogen selenide, I decided, was perhaps the worst smell in the world. But hydrogen telluride came close, was also a smell from hell. An up-to-date hell, I decided, would have not just rivers of fiery brimstone, but lakes of boiling selenium and tellurium, too."

-- Oliver Sacks

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“The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.”

Source : Heinz R. Pagels (2012). “The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature”, p.85, Courier Corporation
“She is a woman of honour and smartness whose wild leaves out luck, always taking risks, and there is something in her brow now, that only she can recognize in a mirror. Ideal and idealistic in that shiny dark hair! People fall in love with her. She is a woman I donâ€™t know well enough to hold in my wing, if writers have wings, to harbour for the rest of my life.”
“The people who do better and better work are people who are never satisfied. Cezanne would say, 'I think I've accomplished something,' but then he would immediately add, 'But it's not enough.”
“Failure is not the outcome - failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.”
“To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.”
“It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As aÂ person deprived of memory becomes disorientated and lost, not knowing where they have been or where they are going , so a nation denied a conception of the past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its future.”

Source : "Folly's Antidote" by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., www.nytimes.com. January 01, 2007.
“I like progress but I hate change.”
“They said you had to take what the defense gave you. No, we are going to take what we want.”

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