A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.
—Eric Hodgins, 1964
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, / And say my glory was I had such friends.
—W.B. Yeats, 1937To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCDoing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
—Roger Ebert, 1998All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
—Plotinus, c. 255The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible.
—Herophilus, c. 290 BCTravel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live.
—Anatole Broyard, 1989Spit not in the well; you may have to drink its water.
—French proverbYou are dust, and to dust you shall return.
—Book of Genesis, c. 800 BCWhat one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
—Henry Adams, 1907The unknown is the largest need of the intellect.
—Emily Dickinson, 1876Is it a fact—or have I dreamed it—that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851Take back your golden fiddles, and we’ll beat to open sea.
—Rudyard Kipling, 1892