Simina

“Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.”
― Epicurus

“The question of when life begins is answered according to the purposes for which we ask it.”
― Carl Zimmer, Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive

“To live well, one must live unseen.”
― René Descartes

“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything