Sam Hailer > Sam's Quotes

“The theory behind primate experimentation was that these animals were closer biologically to man. In the 1950's, several laboratories even attempted experiments on gorillas, going to great trouble and expense to work with these seemingly most human of animals. However, by 1960 it had been demonstrated that of the apes, the chimpanzee was biochemically more like man than the gorilla. (On the basis of similarity to man, the choice of laboratory animals is often surprising. For example, the hamster is preferred for immunological and cancer studies, since his responses are so similar to man's, while for studies of the heart”
― Anonymous

“I lay down and slept;         I woke again, for the LORD sustained me.     6 I will not be afraid of many thousands of people         who have set themselves against me all around.     7 Arise, O LORD!         Save me, O my God!     For you strike all my enemies on the cheek;         you break the teeth of the wicked.”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible, English Standard Version

“Home's where you go when you run out of homes.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

“We talk about business as war, or the body as a machine. You can show or hide what you like by switching accounting systems. All of these are attempts to make the unfamiliar familiar, to make the complicated merely complex.”
― Anonymous

“The only thing I know is that I know nothing, and i am no quite sure that i know that.”
― Socrates, Essential Thinkers - Socrates

“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the pious brethren who carry the gospel to foreign parts.”
― H.L. Mencken, Minority Report