Great Quotes

"Science literacy is necessary for a functioning society in the modern age... Science literacy is not science education. A person educated in science can understand science; a scientifically literate person can do science." -

                                                                                                                Meredith Patterson, in: Biopunk,

                                                                                                                by Marcus Wohlson, p. 44, 2011

"Harvard Law:  Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well pleases."

                                               Murphy's Law, and Other Reasons Why  

                                                                                                          Things Go Wrong, Arthur Bloch, p. 48

"I was astonished to discover that working in the laboratory, doing science in collaboration with interesting and creative people, is dramatically different than taking courses and reading about science.

Eric Kandel, 2000 Nobel Prize winner Physiology and Medicine, (after receiving a B.A. and in his 2nd year of medical school)

                                                                                        In Search of Memory, Eric Kandel, 2006, p. 417

"We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training."

Archilochus, Greek Soldier, Poet, c. 650 BC

“...all teachings of the bitter lesson that while we are tending relentlessly to one part of our lives, the other parts do not stand still.”