"The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas."

-- Hermann von Helmholtz

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“The task of neural science is to explain behaviour in terms of the activities of the brain. How does the brain marshall its millions of individual nerve cells to produce behaviour, and how are these cells influenced by the environment...? The last frontier of the biological sciences â€“ their ultimate challenge â€“ is to understand the biological basis of consciousness and the mental processes by which we perceive, act, learn, and remember.”
“I have no plans to get an iPad. I know it will do more things than my Kindle, but I donâ€™t want more things. If I want other stuff - movies, TV shows, weather forecasts, the forthcoming Josh Ritter album - I have my Mac.”
“Characters aren't a fling. They aren't a one-night stand. Getting to know them takes time and hard work. It takes excessive free writes and multiple experiments.”
“I look at my kids, who were born under a Black president, who hop around the living room naked and joyful, mimicking Simone Biles, and just think, Damn, they got some amazing role models of Black excellence.”

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“My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.”
“My husband said, 'Now you need to go and get a post-doctorate degree in tax law.' Tax law! I hate taxes. Why should I go and do something like that? But the Lord says, 'Be submissive, wives, you are to be submissive to your husbands.'”
“I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences, and now I'm known as a molecular gastronomist.”
“Both in the US and throughout the world, there needs to be a growing presence of public development banks. These banks would make loans based on social welfare criteria - including advancing a full-employment, climate-stabilization agenda - as opposed to scouring the globe for the largest profit opportunities regardless of social costs.... Public development banks have always played a central role in supporting the successful economic development paths in the East Asian economies.”

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