Nobody Is Driven By Abstractions Like 'seeking

She Had Been Living Like A Hermit Herself, In A Cramped, Seedy Apartment In Somerville, Spending Long Hours In The Lab. All-nighters Had Become A Regular Thing. She Didn't Have Any Close Friends, Didn't Go Out On Dates, Didn't Even Go To The Movies By Herself. She Had Sacrificed A Normal Life In Order To Get A Phd, And Become A Scientist.

The Minute We Look, We Cease Being Afraid.

I Eventually Realized That Direct Experience Is The Most Valuable Experience I Can Have. Western Man Is So Surrounded By Ideas, So Bombarded With Opinions, Concepts, And Information Structures Of All Sorts, That It Becomes Difficult To Experience Anything Without The Intervening Filter Of These Structures.

Harassment Is About Power---the Undue Exercise Of Power By A Superior Over A Subordinate.

The Purpose Of History Is To Explain The Present - To Say Why The World Around Us Is The Way It Is. History Tells Us What Is Important In Our World, And How It Came To Be. It Tells Us What Is To Be Ignored, Or Discarded. That Is True Power - Profound Power. The Power To Define A Whole Society.