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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.


Nathaniel Rich

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NATHANIEL RATELIFF Just definitions either prevent or put an end to a dispute.
NATHANIEL EMMONS Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
NATHANIEL BRANDEN What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, with...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop ...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Life is made up of marble and mud.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you w...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE When the sun sets, shadows, that showed at noon But small, appear most long and terrible.
NATHANIEL LEE While foulest fiends shun thy society.
NATHANIEL LEE Then he will talk--good gods, how he will talk!
NATHANIEL LEE Sometimes the subconscious mind manifests a wisdom several steps or even years ahead of the consciou...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the bo...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.
NATHANIEL BRANDEN If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a fr...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind a...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resis...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN We do not hear the term "compassionate" applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly n...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
NATHANIEL BRANDEN To-morrow, didst thou say? Methought I heard Horatio say, To-morrow! Go to--I will not hear it...
NATHANIEL COTTON I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK War between Old England and the Bostonians is expected according to all reports we can hear. Various...
NATHANIEL SMITH How nearly is natural affection connected with the love of God (for if we love not our Brother whom ...
NATHANIEL SMITH What idea can be formed from the description of these people or what credit can be given to their st...
NATHANIEL SMITH May the Lord our God prepare us for every event then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
NATHANIEL SMITH To the best of my knowledge, I do not intend to applaud too much, nor degrade the Country I am in, I...
NATHANIEL SMITH The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratif...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health, self-esteem, not its cause
NATHANIEL BRANDEN Is it a fact -- or have I dreamt it -- that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE The scientist who lives laborious days in the disinterested pursuit of truth, the artist who will st...
NATHANIEL MICKLEM This concern for the rights and liberties and welfare of the backward peoples is rooted in the Chris...
NATHANIEL MICKLEM The idea of endless and limitless progress and development seems unsatisfying both philosophically a...
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