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“My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It's far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting y'all nice microbes to stay awhile and have some artichoke dip.”
Source : A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.72, Simon and Schuster
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“Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.”
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“All healthy men have thought of their own suicide”
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“I was always able to understand my friend who decided to quit smoking and who, through an effort of will, succeeded in doing so. One morning, he opened the newspaper, read that the first H- bomb had exploded, found out about the bomb's admirable effects and went straight to the tobacconist's.”
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“Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.”
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“Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.”
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“What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis.”
Source : A. W. F. Edwards (1984). “Likelihood”, p.180, CUP Archive
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“The word "souvenir" has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale.”
Source : Alan Coren (2008). “Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren”, p.183, Canongate Books
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“Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.”
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“Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.”
