NASA has been scattered to the four winds.
The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
When the words of prophets seem repetitive, that should rivet our attention.
Traditionally, tours were a means of promoting a record. Today, the record promotes the tour.
The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
I'm always open for people saying I'm wrong because most of the time I am.
Caravaggio: Ask your saint who he is. Ask him who he's killed.
I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.
A democratic medical establishment does not alter people's bodies to fit regressive social norms; it advocates for patients by demanding the social body get its act together.
Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.
In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.
We're all essentially surgically connected to our smartphones, and we're still in the early stages of realizing their medical potential. But they should be a real threat to the medical profession.
Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.
John Kennedy had so many different medical problems that began when he was a boy. He started out with intestinal problems... spastic colitis.
Increasingly we know that we're going to have multiple medical conditions, and the person who's got the greatest incentive to manage those conditions is the patient him or herself.
Paul Smecker: Just pour the drink, you fairy fuck.
There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.
In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done.
