You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.


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My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
SAM KINISON
You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's no...
SAM KINISON
You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.
SAM KEEN
A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that ...
SAM KEEN
Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wr...
SAM KEAN
I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your p...
SAM KEAN
Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn't care whether you...
SAM KEAN
In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more deman...
SAM KEAN
The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations - ren...
SAM KEAN
Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe...
SAM KEAN
Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civili...
SAM KEAN
Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges...
SAM KEAN
Guinea pigs are practically synonymous with experiments. Lab rats have become the workhorses of mode...
SAM KEAN
Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic subs...
SAM KEAN
One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy a...
SAM KEAN
Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors...
SAM KEAN
The price of diamonds can vary greatly depending on size, cut, color, and other factors, including w...
SAM KEAN
The body tends to treat elements in the same column of the periodic table as equivalents.
SAM KEAN
America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpa...
SAM KEAN
The more that I looked at DNA, the more I realized it was nature and nurture. It's how genes and...
SAM KEAN
Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impres...
SAM KEAN
Most people, even most doctors, learn that the placenta is a nice, tight seal that prevents anything...
SAM KEAN
I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolat...
SAM KEAN
Brain surgery couldn't happen without the patient's own active voice to guide the work. The ...
SAM KEAN
Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
SAM KEAN
I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they w...
SAM HUNTINGTON