Imperfect Chemistry

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.

Words can be sweetly encouraging or downright dirty, but they are almost always a powerful aphrodisiac. –Dr. Ruth

Ask the question. Always ask the question, never assume.

Nearly everyone who sees you complains,” he says. “Nearly? There are some people who don’t complain?” I ask. “I was being nice. Everyone who sees you complains,” he says. That can’t be true.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. –B.F. Skinner

I shut the door firmly behind me. I shut it on Jensen, but I can’t shut it on myself and on the strange and foreign feelings churning inside.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. –Richard Feynman

He laughs. “Why does she do that?” “The world may never know.