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The whole point of cryopreserving only one's head is based on the idea that one can simply grow in the laboratory an entire new body, without a head, and stick it onto the cryopreserved head.

Aubrey de Grey

Gee, I'm sorry I didn't hear you in all this rain. Go ahead in, please." Anthony Perkin's Norman Bates Talking To Janet Leigh's Marion Crane.

Alfred Hitchcock

The living cell almost always contains, locked in its interior, the visible or invisible products of its physiological activity or its nourishment.

Albrecht Kossel

A few small changes in your DNA can turn your eyes blue, make you lactose intolerant or put some curl in your hair.

Anne Wojcicki

If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn't. It's cal...

Bruce Lipton

I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thing. Most of all, don't deceive me with other women any more.

Camille Claudel

I neither oblige the belief of other person, nor overhastily subscribe mine own. Nor have I stood with others computing or collating years and chronologies, lest I should be vainly curious about the time and circumstance of things, whereof the substa...

The History of Britain; That Part Especially Now Called England, from the First Traditional Beginning Continued to the Norman Conquest

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt. (p. 21)

The Courage to Create

Where you read a book and when and with whom can make a big difference.

The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination

It might be true that it is “quality time” that counts, but after a certain point quantity has a bearing on quality.

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Such a woman is called "Mother's FRIEND" always ready to give judicious Parental advice and living vicariously on the experience of others

Games People Play

I was playing in bands and doing gigs from the age of 14 on. I stopped at the age of 28. Technology replaced me. As soon as I saw what computers can do, I didn't think there would be a point for a live drummer.

Mitchell Joachim

There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading - because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity - that is a very exciting area in architecture.

Annabelle Selldorf

Nobody complains that Bernini's sculptures are too darn real, right? Or that Norman Rockwell's paintings are too creepy. Well, robots can seem real and be loved, too. We're trying to make a new art medium out of robotics.

David Hanson

I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors.

John Hench

... instead of spelling stories you spread silence, which was outside the alphabet.

The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals

Finally the dawn came, the sky fringed with pink, and the sun bright as a coin in a spill of rising red.

The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals

...the clear water the color of deeply steeped tea, surrounded by cattails and gracile grasses.

The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals

Life is not a matter for simple optimism--for there is evil; nor for mere pessimism--for there is good. The possibility for good in the face of evil is what gives life tragic meaning.

The Art of Counseling

You won't know the meaning of success without knowing how it feels to fail.

Amulet, Vol. 4: The Last Council

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain