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The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys
Vast areas are witness to the struggles of destitute populations trying to survive under unlivable conditions.
Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.
For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.
A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.
With technology and over-scheduling, we are forgetting to invest time in simple connective moments with others.
There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.
Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.
After returning from Cambridge in 1936, I did some work with J. M. Mioz on the oxidation of fatty acids in liver.
In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.
Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.'
Kissing is not just kissing. It is a major escalation or de-escalation point in a powerful process of mate choice.
Natural beauty really entices men. They will tell you this time and time again, and studies consistently prove it.
The IPCC doesn't do any research itself. We only develop our assessments on the basis of peer-reviewed literature.
Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.
We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.
If you want a particular behavior from someone else, try spotlighting those times when he or she is already doing it.
Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world.
At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.
People are pulled towards the best in themselves, and spotlighting the right is a much stronger approach than nagging.
If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.
It is very important for me to be taken seriously for my science and not for my looks or other personal accomplishments.
Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to-at best-three years
Men are so visual, they see a woman who appeals to them physically, and it will trigger the romantic love system faster.
I realized there was a better way to broadcast the news that empowered people to believe they could overcome challenges.
The only people you and I are likely to know in common are people in the news - politicians, journalists and celebrities.
You take [mammary] cells, you put them in a dish, and within three days ... they don't make milk. They completely forget.
People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible.
Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
I was born during the war, on October 20, 1942, as the second of five children. My father, Rolf Volhard, was an architect.
Most of us make up our minds in the first three minutes of meeting someone whether there's a potential for a relationship.
Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together.
My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed.
Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.
There is no greater prediction in the research of our levels of happiness than the breadth and depth of our relationships.
The thing I'm most interested in is the nervous system. How do brains grow? How do genes build complicated nervous systems?
[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions.
A scientist who is also a human being cannot rest while knowledge which might be used to reduce suffering rests on the shelf.
Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are.
Any time you choose not to hide your tattoo, you're limiting your social sphere, because they're not popular in big business.
I think there is little harm in venting here and there about things, as we are all human, and it is good to express emotions.
You can really get poked in the back and not feel it very much, but just a feather around your lips and you really do feel it.
We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.
It would be an exaggeration to say I’m not afraid of death, but I’m not afraid of what comes after, because I’m not a believer.
It would be an exaggeration to say I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not afraid of what comes after, because I'm not a believer.
Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.
As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.
If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can’t stop thinking about another human being.
Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.