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Once, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote, "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea ..." As a scientist and a teacher, I like to paraphrase this to read that we scientists need to teach our students to long for the endless immensity of the sea that is our ignorance.

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This was a long delay.

And the man said, "He's come down a long way, hasn't he?" (Laughter) (Applause) There's been kind of a series of epiphanies.

The history of attempts to tinker with the function of the nervous system is long and illustrious.

And we've come a long way since Galvani's and Susana's first successes in making animals twitch or jump.

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