We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.
What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.
The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around.
I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.
Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.
A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them.
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.
A good watch may serve to keep a recconing at Sea for some days and to know the time of a Celestial Observ[at]ion: and for this end a good Jewel watch may suffice till a better sort of Watch can be found out. But when the Longitude at sea is once lost, it cannot be found again by any watch.
Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.
I don't smoke often, maybe once or twice a month, but it makes me feel sexy and romantic.