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Henry Jacob Bigelow

"Every discoverer of a new truth, or inventor of the method which evolves it, makes a dozen, perhaps fifty, useless combinations, experiments, or trials for one successful one. In the realm of electricity or of mechanics there is no objection to this. But when such rejected failures involve a torture of animals, sometimes fearful in its character, there is a distinct objection to it."

Source : "Surgical Anaesthesia: Addresses and Other Papers". Pp. 369-370. Book by Henry Jacob Bigelow, 1894.

Henry Jacob Bigelow

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“It was not cool to be that fun, bubbly kid, so I would just go off on my own and sing and make up songs, and that's how I think I developed into the kind of artist and writer that I am.”

Source : "Elle Varner Was Never 'the Pretty Girl' Before Perfectly Imperfect" by Rebecca Thomas, www.mtv.com. August 14, 2012.
“The art of Navigation demonstrates how, by the shortest good way, by the aptest direction, and in the shortest time, a sufficient ship, between any two places (in passage navigable) assigned, may be conducted; and in all storms and natural disturbances chancing, how to use the best possible means, whereby to recover the place first assigned. Mathematical Preface”
“Nancy, you're a whiz, as I've often told you," her friend declared.”

Source : Carolyn Keene (1931). “Nancy Drew 06: The Secret of Red Gate Farm”, p.80, Penguin
“Whatever the regulations are, you can be as dark and disturbing as you want and we're going to go in that direction. The intention is to be as dark and scary as possible with the show. And that was our whole kind of plan going in, to make it scary. So we're going to explore all kinds of things.”
“If there are no spots on a sugar cube then Iâ€™ve just put a dice in my tea.”
“Three things about water affect almost all of cooking. First are the hydrogen bonds, which is why it has an incredibly high boiling point. Another is that it's a polar molecule, so that it dissolves a lot of things, and there are things that won't mix with it. And then there's how much energy it takes to heat water.”
“But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff.”
“Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?”

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