Sam Kean Quotes

Before the Human Genome Project, most scientists assumed, based on our complex brains and behaviors, that humans must have around 100,000 genes; some estimates went as high as 150,000.

Sam Kean

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HumanProjectHighGenesComplex

Low-cost, high-grade coal, oil and natural gas - the backbone of the Industrial Revolution - will be a distant memory by 2050. Much higher-cost remnants will still be available, but they will not be able to drive our growth, our population and, most critically, our food supply as before.

Jeremy Grantham

GrowthFoodMemoryDriveRevolution

Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content.

John Dykstra

TechnologyCreativeHandsDigital

Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple.

Robert Gottlieb

SimpleDanceOperaStoriesThose

I'm the 'Muskrat Love' girl.

Toni Tennille

LoveGirl

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Truman Capote

SuccessFailureFlavorGives

The vast majority of the online crime cases, we don't even know which continent the attacks are coming from. And even if we are able to find online criminals, quite often there is no outcome. The local police don't act, or if they do, there's not enough evidence, or for some reason we can't take them down.

Mikko Hypponen

PoliceEnoughFindDownKnowCrime

A lot of people think jugglers defy gravity or do stuff. Well, I kind of, from my childhood and golf and all that, it's a process of joining with forces.

Michael Moschen

ChildhoodPeopleThinkProcessGolf

The French fry did not become America's most popular vegetable until industry took over the jobs of washing, peeling, cutting, and frying the potatoes - and cleaning up the mess.

Michael Pollan

AmericaCleaningBecomeOverMess

Obviously, fans are the beginning and end for any artist. The minute your fans embrace you and accept you, you begin this ride of being in music and having a career doing something you love. You get to go be a kid and live out your dreams by performing music for fans who come out to your shows.

Luke Bryan

LoveDreamsLiveMusicYour Dreams

I find I like the spotlight for a very brief period of time... and I sort of need it. But then, the minute that it's done, I have to sort of go hide. So I was never really meant, I think, to be a performer for a living.

Jason Robert Brown

TimeThinkHideFindDoneLiving

I know prisons from the inside.

Jose Mujica

KnowInsidePrisons

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.

Jordan Knight

ProblemOverYearsSureSixCourse

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