If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
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The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilizer. It is important to recognize that in our time man has not written one word, thought one thought, put two notes or two bricks together, splashed color on to canvas or concrete into space, in a manner which will be of any conceivable imaginative interest to posterity.
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Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. 'Chance,' Pastuer wrote, 'favors only the prepared mind.' The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know-how, but also by the awareness of social needs.
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Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
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