Julius H. Comroe, Jr. quotes

“Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter.”
-- Julius H. Comroe, Jr.

Source : "What Does That Mean? : Exploring Mind, Meaning, and Mysteries". Book by Eldon Taylor (p. 9), 2010.

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“...Lag...occurred between an initial discovery and its effective clinical application. We analyzed 111 such lags: 8% amounted to 0.1 to 1 year; another 18% were 1 to 10 years; 17% (lagged) 11-20 years;...39% (lagged) 21-50 years; only 18% required more than 50 years for application.”
-- Julius H. Comroe, Jr.

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“I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We're all over the artistic side of things.”

“My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display.”

“Outside your door, the world is waiting. Inside your heart, a voice is calling. The four corners of the world are watching. So travel, daughter, travel. Go get it, girl.”

“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'”

“If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her!”

“It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.”

“It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity.”

“There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking.”

“We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.”

“Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.”