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Having been trained in history and the humanities, where one learns early on how depressing life can be, I am delighted to have ultimately switched to biology, where a delusional optimism still abounds.

— Eric Kandel In Search of Memory (2006)

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The life of a biological scientist in the United States is a life of discussion and debate—it is the Talmudic tradition writ large.

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The function of the modern artist was not to convey beauty, but to convey new truths.

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