Jeffrey Kluger Quotes & Sayings (Page 9)

“When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas.”

“What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent.”

“When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you're in the sweet spot for trouble.”

“When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.”

“In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement.”

“More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.”

“Well, I think of the folks who are the climate deniers as the flat Earthers and the people who say the moon landings never happened.”

“Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed.”

“Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.”

“My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that home explode, too.”