Quimby: I propose that I use what's left of the town treasury to move to a more prosperous town and run for mayor and once selected I will send for the rest of you. All: Boo!

[…] people are barely over our givin’ that extra quota of cod to the French, now they’re all aflap about selling spawny caplin to the Japanese […]

He demonstrated by perfusion experiments that the organs of an animal thus exposed to long lasting shock may become deallergized for the duration of its life with the inhibition of the antigen-antibody reaction.

[T]he book, constructed in short, lucid episodes, can be satisfyingly read as a sequence of provocative talks, at once well informed and vatic.