28 July 2013
Quote of the Day: Oliver Sacks
From here:
"Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers. At 11, I could say 'I am sodium' (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold. A few years ago, when I gave a friend a bottle of mercury for his 80th birthday — a special bottle that could neither leak nor break — he gave me a peculiar look, but later sent me a charming letter in which he joked, 'I take a little every morning for my health.'”
"Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers. At 11, I could say 'I am sodium' (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold. A few years ago, when I gave a friend a bottle of mercury for his 80th birthday — a special bottle that could neither leak nor break — he gave me a peculiar look, but later sent me a charming letter in which he joked, 'I take a little every morning for my health.'”
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# posted by mamurd @ 10:07 PM 
