"This is only one step in a much larger project. I discovered (no, not me: my team) the function of sugar nucleotides in cell metabolism. I want others to understood this, but it is not easy to explain: this is not a very noteworthy deed, and we hardly know even a little."

-- Luis Federico Leloir

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“Alex took a silent step closer to the kitchen door and watched unseen as willow spooned instant coffee into a pair of mugs.With another yawn, she scraped her hair off her face and stretched. She looked so entirely human, so drowsy and sleep-rumpled.For a moment, Alex just gazed at her, taking in her long tumble of hair, her wide green eyes and pixieish chin. Fleetingly, he imagined her eyes meeting his, wondering what she'd look like if she smiled”
“History is absolutely my thing.”
“You're not really supposed to like ABBA in Sweden. It's nerdy.”
“How many men must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society? How long will it take?”
“I've only ever chosen men who happen to spend a lot of time out of the country, who have jobs that take them all over the world, and I think that's interesting because my father was absent, and then home, and I've always been in relationships where there's separation.”
“To be happy with human beings, we should not ask them for what they cannot give.”
“The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy.”
“The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of oneâ€™s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.”

Source : R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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