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And That's How Things Are. A Day Is Like A Whole Life. You Start Out Doing One Thing, But End Up Doing Something Else, Plan To Run An Errand, But Never Get There. . . . And At The End Of Your Life, Your Whole Existence Has The Same Haphazard Quality, Too. Your Whole Life Has The Same Shape As A Single Day.

Most Areas Of Intellectual Life Have Discovered The Virtues Of Speculation, And Have Embraced Them Wildly. In Academia, Speculation Is Usually Dignified As Theory.

Keep Working. Don't Wait For Inspiration. Work Inspires Inspiration. Keep Working.

That Is The Danger We Now Face. And This Is Why The Intermixing Of Science And Politics Is A Bad Combination, With A Bad History. We Must Remember The History, And Be Certain That What We Present To The World As Knowledge Is Disinterested And Honest.

She Had Been Living Like A Hermit Herself, In A Cramped, Seedy Apartment In Somerville, Spending Long Hours In The Lab. All-nighters Had Become A Regular Thing. She Didn't Have Any Close Friends, Didn't Go Out On Dates, Didn't Even Go To The Movies By Herself. She Had Sacrificed A Normal Life In Order To Get A Phd, And Become A Scientist.