Sam Kean Quotes
Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're looking at with these genetic tests, it's not like you're condemned to automatically get the disease or the syndrome. There's a lot of factors in play there.
Quotes to Explore
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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
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I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
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Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.
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Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.
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If a person is insane or troubled, you first have to get the person to admit that they have a problem before you can solve anything.
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I was very young, and I remember this heated, passionate argument and trying to figure out some place called Vietnam, something called a Watergate, and some guy named Gerald Ford who my dad knew who had just become president, and how all these things fit together.
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I don't like selling myself. It's a sort of shy arrogance.
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Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're looking at with these genetic tests, it's not like you're condemned to automatically get the disease or the syndrome. There's a lot of factors in play there.
