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Oliver Sacks

"Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the smell of a substance, or the way it was transformed in chemical reactions, never forgot anything he read, or was told, about the phenomena of chemistry. He seemed indifferent, or inattentive, to most things else, being wholly dedicated to his single passion, chemistry. It was this pure and passionate absorption in phenomena-noticing everything, forgetting nothing-that constituted Scheele's special strength."

-- Oliver Sacks

#Passion Quotes #Smell Quotes #Special Quotes

“Just sprinkle a little lime to neutralize the acid.”
“Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.”
“No one can be saved without divine light. Divine light causes us to begin and to make progress, and it leads us to the summit of perfection. Therefore if you want to begin and to receive this divine light, pray. If you have begun to make progress and want this light to be intensified within you, pray. And if you have reached the summit of perfection, and want to be super-illumined so as to remain in that state, pray.”

Source : "The Memorial and Instructions". Complete Works published by Paulist Press, p. 234, 1993.
“A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.”

Source : Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.121, Random House India
“The real wonder is that so many difficulties should have been surmounted [in the federal convention], and surmounted with a unanimity almost as unprecedented as it must have been unexpected. It is impossible for any man of candor to reflect on this circumstance without partaking of the astonishment. It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it a finger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the revolution.”
“I found it extremely annoying when somebody would say something like "You seem to be influenced by Ken Nordine." And I didn't even know who Ken Nordine was.”

Source : Interview with Jonathan Goldstein, believermag.com. March 1, 2013.
“There are dozens of unfinished or aborted projects in my files, but I can only assume they don't get done because they're not robust enough to struggle through the birth process.”
“I made the intentional choice to step behind the camera.”

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