When I face an issue of great import that cleaves both constituents and colleagues, I always take th...
THOMAS H. KEAN We are safer but we are not yet safe. Four years after 9/11, we are not as safe as we could be. And ...
THOMAS KEAN It's not a priority for the government right now. You don't see the Congress or the president talkin...
THOMAS KEAN The problem was the CIA and FBI not communicating and not picking them up.
THOMAS KEAN Hurricane Katrina pointed out continuing serious flaws in our emergency preparedness and response. A...
THOMAS KEAN They're talking about using more money for random checks. Terrorists coming through the airport may ...
THOMAS KEAN The first people who reached the World Trade Center did not know who was in charge. Every state and ...
THOMAS KEAN There are many things that people think have been done that simply haven't been done. Our leadership...
THOMAS KEAN Our purpose is to find out why things happened, how they could have happened, and what we can do to ...
THOMAS KEAN We must not allow the people who were struck down to simply become statistics. The greatest service ...
THOMAS KEAN It scares me a bit that we dismantled the CIA to the point that it now takes five years to rebuild i...
THOMAS KEAN All 10 of us have decided to do everything we can, whether it's testimony or lobbying or speaking or...
THOMAS KEAN It shouldn't have happened, it never should have happened.
THOMAS KEAN I think this deal is going to be killed. The question is how much damage is this going to do to us b...
THOMAS KEAN Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and...
THOMAS KEAN, JR. I always knew that I would give back. My mother and my father both believe you have to work hard and...
THOMAS KEAN, JR. We owe every student in every neighborhood in New Jersey an equal opportunity to succeed. We know th...
THOMAS KEAN, JR. Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons close...
SAM KEAN Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wr...
SAM KEAN I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your p...
SAM KEAN Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn't care whether you...
SAM KEAN In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more deman...
SAM KEAN The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations - ren...
SAM KEAN Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe...
SAM KEAN Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civili...
SAM KEAN Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges...
SAM KEAN Guinea pigs are practically synonymous with experiments. Lab rats have become the workhorses of mode...
SAM KEAN Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic subs...
SAM KEAN One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy a...
SAM KEAN Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors...
SAM KEAN The price of diamonds can vary greatly depending on size, cut, color, and other factors, including w...
SAM KEAN The body tends to treat elements in the same column of the periodic table as equivalents.
SAM KEAN America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpa...
SAM KEAN The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and...
SAM KEAN Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impres...
SAM KEAN Most people, even most doctors, learn that the placenta is a nice, tight seal that prevents anything...
SAM KEAN I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolat...
SAM KEAN Brain surgery couldn't happen without the patient's own active voice to guide the work. The ...
SAM KEAN Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
SAM KEAN On a submicro scale, pure diamond is billions of billions of carbon atoms bonded to one another. If ...
SAM KEAN People adored Element 13's color and luster, which reminded them of the sparkle of gold and silv...
SAM KEAN While our amplified knowledge of genetics - and the increasing precision of the field - does make it...
SAM KEAN The noble gases, which reside on the East Coast of the periodic table, are its aristocrats - detache...
SAM KEAN Never underestimate spite as a motivator for genius.
SAM KEAN Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're ...
SAM KEAN Entrepreneurs in the United States and Europe finally figured out how to separate aluminum from mine...
SAM KEAN Some scientists claim - although these claims are contentious - that they can form deadly isomers wi...
SAM KEAN Even fictional characters sometimes receive unwarranted medical opinions. Doctors have diagnosed Ebe...
SAM KEAN It's often meaningless to talk about a genetic trait without also discussing the environment in ...
SAM KEAN In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: Th...
SAM KEAN If you had to sum up chemistry in one sentence, it might be this: Atoms need to have full shells of ...
SAM KEAN Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than l...
SAM KEAN Aluminum is the most common metal in the earth's crust, almost twice as abundant as iron. And on...
SAM KEAN If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings f...
SAM KEAN When first presented with the jumble of the periodic table, I scanned for mercury and couldn't f...
SAM KEAN The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural...
SAM KEAN Many different elements can form isomers, but only a few elements on the periodic table, like hafniu...
SAM KEAN Scientists have continued to tinker with different elements and have learned new ways to store and d...
SAM KEAN The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be ment...
SAM KEAN Lithium makes a fine battery because it's a scarily reactive metal. Pure lithium ignites on cont...
SAM KEAN Geneticists in the early 1900s believed that nature - in an effort to avoid wasting precious space w...
SAM KEAN Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain ...
SAM KEAN In 'The Violinist's Thumb,' I talk about the poignancy of cells leaking across the place...
SAM KEAN Despite its obscurity, probably no element on the periodic table has as colorful a history as antimo...
SAM KEAN Microchimeric sharing means that, even if the mother loses a child, she'll have a small memento ...
SAM KEAN Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' eleme...
SAM KEAN Despite the earnest belief of most of his fans, Einstein did not win his Nobel Prize for the theory ...
SAM KEAN Most stars just fuse hydrogen into helium, but larger stars can fuse helium into other elements. Sti...
SAM KEAN The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unfla...
SAM KEAN Atoms of Element 118 fill an outer shell with electrons, creating a special type of element called a...
SAM KEAN All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of thos...
SAM KEAN Things look especially bleak for common killers such as diabetes and heart disease. Those ailments c...
SAM KEAN Mutations can arise anywhere in the genome, in gene DNA and noncoding DNA alike. But mutations to ge...
SAM KEAN If certain bacteria, fungi, or algae inch across something made of copper, they absorb copper atoms,...
SAM KEAN If stem cells divide equally, so both daughter cells look more or less the same, each one becomes an...
SAM KEAN In fact, his travelogues spend amazingly little time discussing his blindness. Only one passage stan...
SAM KEAN There are a few elements - especially platinum and palladium - that have the amazing ability to abso...
SAM KEAN Unlike uranium, plutonium was created in an American lab in 1940, but scientists soon realized that ...
SAM KEAN The idea of critical windows extends beyond just vision, of course: almost every system in the brain...
SAM KEAN All we know for sure is that if some astronomer turned a telescope to a far-off star cluster tonight...
SAM KEAN Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many...
SAM KEAN Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common a...
SAM KEAN Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been w...
SAM KEAN As a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth - food, dentist's tubes,...
SAM KEAN Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mi...
SAM KEAN We know that genes shape human cultures and human societies: The DNA we inherited from our ancestors...
SAM KEAN Lithium regulates the proteins that control the body’s inner clock. This clock runs, oddly, on DNA...
SAM KEAN Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically ...
SAM KEAN Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and th...
SAM KEAN No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about phar...
SAM KEAN Niemożność dostrzeżenia szerszego kontekstu to zwykły skutek uszkodzenia okolic kory przedczoł...
SAM KEAN Jupiter instead cooled down below the threshold for fusion, but it maintained enough heat and mass a...
SAM KEAN There's definitely evidence of strange phenomenon in the world. These are well documented,
LESLIE KEAN We can't come up with a reason why this information is being withheld. The government won't even ack...
LESLIE KEAN We also had a competition between the males and the females for ice cream at lunch. Many of the kids...
JUSTIN KEAN What we'll be doing is helping our management [team] manage better by taking the divisions that have...
KEAN REGISTER As an interim city manager, you kind of hold the line until a new city manager is hired. The council...
KEAN REGISTER Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.
THOMAS H. RADDAL The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That...
THOMAS H. HUXLEY Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY I went to the Alabama public schools at a time when my English teachers, all but one of whom was a w...
THOMAS H. COOK There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are b...
THOMAS H. HUXLEY It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real...
THOMAS H. HUXLEY The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion... or you s...
THOMAS H. HUXLEY Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veter...
THOMAS H. HUXLEY Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to req...
THOMAS H. HUXLEY Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he...
THOMAS H. HUXLEY Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by ...
THOMAS H. HUXLEY Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grou...
THOMAS H. HUXLEY Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you h...
THOMAS H. HUXLEY Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either.
THOMAS H. RADDALL Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless ...
THOMAS H. HUXLEY It is a way of defining turf-a sonic turf.
THOMAS H. FAY The foundation of morality to have done, once and for all, with lying.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY He looked at me intently, from what seemed behind the veil of a grave experience. Then slowly and pr...
THOMAS H. COOK A traveler enters the world into which he travels, but a tourist brings his own world with him and n...
THOMAS H. COOK In a cool solitude of trees
Where leaves and birds a music spin,
Mind that was weary is at...
WILLIAM KEAN SEYMOUR Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H. Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
H. Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.
H. Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
H. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road...
H. Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H H WILLIAMS There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an ...
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
H. H. MUNRO Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. WILLIAMS Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
H. H. MUNRO The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went
H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's...
H. H. MUNRO Women and elephants never forget an injury
H. H. MUNRO The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happene...
H. H. MUNRO I always say beauty is only sin deep.
H. H. MUNRO I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to...
H. H. MUNRO A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mo...
H. H. MUNRO Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for ...
H. H. MUNRO Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're stillborn
H. H. MUNRO I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong th...
H. H. MUNRO We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometim...
H. H. MUNRO The young have aspirations that will never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never ha...
H. H. MUNRO His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect
H. H. MUNRO The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally
H. H. MUNRO People yield more consideration to a mutilated mealtime or a broken night's rest than ever they woul...
H. H. MUNRO In baiting a mouse-trap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse
H. H. MUNRO Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
H. H. MUNRO If your heart is full, you don't feel that hungry.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA Some are destined to succeed, some are determined to succeed.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA An Altar in life, alters our life.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA Important things are not things.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA The softest pillow is a clean conscience.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA Respect, don't suspect.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA If we want to realize our dreams, we have to stay awake.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA A narrow vision is divisive, a broad vision expansive. But a divine vision is all-inclusive.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA Success is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA Be tender towards the fault of others, be strict towards your own.
H. H. SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA People travel in the way of least resistance, by choosing one's environment, one will travel in a pa...
H. JANICKI An animal will always look for a person's intentions by looking them right in the eyes.
H. POWERS A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is le...
H MATHEWS Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations and small needs.
H. STEIN The really idle man gets nowhere; the perpetually busy man does not get much further.
H. OGILVIE If .. 'Ifs and buts' were candy and nuts...oh, what a party we would have.
H. BERGH I'm friends with Criss Angel. Criss has offered me a million times to go downstairs and see the ...
TRIPLE H A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is lef...
H. MATHEWS Money is the grease that lubricates the engine of life. Too much won't take you further, but with to...
H ROSANO The most boring and fruitless conversations are those where they all agree with you
H ROSANO A book understood fits into one page
H ROSANO what separates humans from animals is the ability to think beyond basic instincts. And yet, some ref...
H ROSANO Corporate finance is more about cosmetics than it is to fitness
H ROSANO I love steakhouses. When I'm in Chicago, I know there's a Gibsons that's open late. 13 C...
TRIPLE H It kills me to know that to save your soul, i must break your heart.
H WEISS Our spirits are connected honey. Wrapped in firsts of gnarled heartache. But I promise not to let go...
ALFA H I never needed a Man. I needed a Viking. I needed someone who wasn't afraid of my strengths, or of m...
ALFA H They beg you for transparency. Yet when you give them a peek behind the curtain shrouding your hear,...
ALFA H However this life is unbalanced
MARK H Dear books, please take me to the places where my feet can't take me.
H. MIDORIKAWA Be careful with those promises who whisper while wooing and loving someone. There are those that tak...
ALFA H Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.
H. BARBUSSE The reward of a teacher is the smiles of today and yesterday, the grateful hearts of those young sou...
H GREYLING I have waltzed with wolves and howled at the moon. But my heart will always remember the slow-dance ...
ALFA H How to raise sons who respect women:
Never give them the opportunity to see you disrespect your...
ALFA H So... Dell had been a good boy with bad friends. I knew this – I used to be one of them. I’d alw...
H. ALAZHAR If all your peers understand what you've done, it's not creative.
H. HEIMLICH Globalization making all economics behave like a flock of birds
H ROSANO Breathe to clear the mind and body too of impulsiveness.
BATHILDA H. Her mind is a mess, and she has no intention of cleaning today.
ALFA H I am often asked what made me the way I am. And my answer is always this: I've always been me. It ju...
ALFA H