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What did bother him was the need to abandon good science. To succeed in preparing either a vaccine or a serum, he would have to make a series of guesses based on at best inconclusive results, and each guess would have to be right.
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“How now!" they shouted; "Dar'st thou measure this our god! That's for us." "Aye, priests—well, how long do ye make him, then?”
― Moby Dick
― Moby Dick
“Oh! my friends, but this is man-killing! Yet this is life.”
― Moby Dick
― Moby Dick
“Now, in general, Stick to the boat, is your true motto in whaling; but cases will sometimes happen when Leap from the boat, is still better.”
― Moby Dick
― Moby Dick
“What matters is that the unconscious brain knows when the body is capable of achieving the goals of the conscious mind and communicates this knowledge to consciousness in the form of the feeling of confidence. Therefore, the primary objective of training for every competitive runner should be to develop confidence in her ability to achieve her race goals.”
― RUN: The Mind-Body Method of Running by Feel
― RUN: The Mind-Body Method of Running by Feel
“Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye.”
― Moby Dick
― Moby Dick
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