Monday, November 29, 2010

Kary Mullis

Weʼre not pragmatists anymore. For at least a couple of hundred years Americans have always been thought of as pragmatic philosophers ... and all you have to do is take LSD one time to realize that that is not going to happen. (laughter) ... But human beings, who are paying for this whole endeavor, will never understand this. ... You can find evidence for anything if you look hard enough.

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  1. In a Q&A interview published in the September, 1994, issue of California Monthly, Mullis said, "Back in the 1960s and early '70s I took plenty of LSD. A lot of people were doing that in Berkeley back then. And I found it to be a mind-opening experience. It was certainly much more important than any courses I ever took."

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  2. この男はノーベル賞の化学賞の受賞者である。この男は、しかしながら大の女好きで通っているし、サーフィン狂いでも通っている。秘書とこっそりサーフィンをするのでも有名だ。のみならず超常現象が大好きで、おまけにLSDの常用者であるともっぱら信じられている。そこで、この男のことをたいていのマスコミは「史上最も身持ちの悪い化学者」とよぶ。
    だいたいマリスが生化学者になったのは星占いにしたがったためだった。「私は双子座の月を顔に、冷たい赤い火星の風を髪に宿したディープな化学者なのだ」と自分でも書いている。何がディープかとえば、深く女性とつきあっているという意味もあるが、人間の深部を決定している遺伝子につきあう化学者なのだ。マリスの本職はDNAを読むことなのである。

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  3. Kary: I think that if we, as a society, want to survive for a long time, then
    weʼve got to put up an umbrella over our heads to protect us from the things
    that are obviously going to fall on our planet.

    ...playful, childlike qualities in Kary when he was discussing sophisticated scientific ideas.
    There was a simplicity, and a clarity, in the way that he approached complex ideas, and his mind seemed to exist in many dimensions at once...although his mind seemed to be
    moving very quickly, he also appeared to be a very relaxed. Kary has an uncanny ability to combine extremely far-out perspectives with very practical, nuts-and-bolts thinking.

    Maybe LSD expand his brain sensors? some says that LSD is less harm than taking sugar?
    But they were all temporary stuff and they have created/caused problems for many people who lost control of their mind?

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