That enormously complex biological interactions are so flawlessly coordinated as to result in such obvious manifestations as human thought or the electrical activity that dries the heartbeat is as exciting to me -- actually more exciting -- than such phenomena were when I was a small boy and thought them divinely (in the supernatural sense) driven.
Sherwin B. NulandTags: science biology spirtuality
The life sciences contain spiritual values which can never be explained by the materialistic attitude of present day science
Sherwin B. NulandTags: science biology spirtuality
The very old do not succomb to disease-they implode their way into eternity. (How We Die)
Sherwin B. NulandEmpires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.
Sherwin B. NulandTags: instinct
Though biomedical science has vastly increased mankind’s average life expectancy, the maximum has not changed in verifiable recorded history.
Sherwin B. NulandThe belief in the probability of death with dignity is our, and society’s, attempt to deal with the reality of what is all too frequently a series of destructive events that involve by their very nature the disintegration of the dying person’s humanity. I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.
Sherwin B. NulandMy mother died of colon cancer one week after my eleventh birthday, and that fact has shaped my life. All that I have become and much that I have not become, I trace directly or indirectly to her death. ... In my professional and personal life, I have lived with the awareness of death's imminence for more than half a century, and labored in its constant presence for all but the first decade of that time.
Sherwin B. NulandTags: death death-and-dying
Leonardo, with his profound knowledge of art, commenced various undertakings, many of which he never completed, because it appeared to him that the hand could never give due perfection to the object or purpose which he had in his thoughts, or beheld in his imagination - since in his mind he frequently formed some difficult conception, so subtle and so wonderful that no hands, however excellent or able, could ever give it expression
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