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"Names fascinated me - their sounds, their associations, the sense they gave of people and places. The names of the elements were filled with such evocations...This almost religious feeling about the Periodic Table afforded me a very deep, cosmic sense of security and stability, a conviction that the physical universe, at least, was lawful, orderly, harmonious. This certainty did much to alleviate the terrifying uncertainties that had so undone me in my years at Greystone." - Oliver sacks, "Brilliant Light: A Chemical Boyhood" An article in the Dec. 20, '99 New Yorker.