Forgiving presupposes remembering.
A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed.
The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.
Uniqueness is the commodity of glut.
Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.
How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes just are, that they are in the nature of the beasts, because each sex has an evolved tendency to develop that way in response to experience.
The body is merely an evolutionary vehicle for the gene
Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.
But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.
Withdraw to the untroubled quietude deep within the soul, and refresh yourself.
Mattia's voice no longer stirred anything in his stomach, but he was aware of the idea of him and always would be, as the only true benchmark for everything that had come afterward.