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“…most of my day was spent performing the strange verbs of bench science: amplifying, vortexing, pipetting, sequencing, digesting, and so on. It was simple manual labor, but the work felt profound…if my experiments didn’t fail, I ended up with an answer. The truth seemed to slowly accumulate, like dust.” —Jonah Lehrer, Proust Was A Neuroscientist