Oliver Sacks Quotes

Chemical Exploration, Chemical Discovery, Was All The More Romantic For Its Dangers. I Felt A Certain Boyish Glee In Playing With These Dangerous Substances, And I Was Struck, In My Reading, By The Range Of Accidents That Had Befallen The Pioneers. Few Naturalists Had Been Devoured By Wild Animals Or Stung To Death By Noxious Plants Or Insects; Few Physicists Had Lost Their Eyesight Gazing At The Heavens, Or Broken A Leg On An Inclined Plane; But Many Chemists Had Lost Their Eyes, Limbs, And Even Their Lives, Usually Through Producing Inadvertent Explosions Or Toxins.

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