Jake Zinter

“Scientists, for their part, need to be far more engaged with current public debates. They “should not be afraid of making their voice heard when the debate wanders into their field of expertise, be it medicine or history. Silence isn’t neuatrality; it is supporting the status quo. Of course, it is extremely important to go on doing academic research and to publish the results in scientific journals that only a few experts read. But it is equally important to communicate the latest scientific theories to the general public through popular-science books, and even through the skilful use of art and fiction.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.”
― nicholas sparks

“When it came -- thirty cents -- he pinned it up in his trailer, brass-headed tack in each corner. Below it he drove a nail and on the nail he hung the wire hanger and the two old shirts suspended from it. He stepped back and looked
at the ensemble through a few stinging tears.

“Jack, I swear -- “ he said, though Jack had never asked him to swear anything and was himself not the swearing kind.”
― Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

“Could any man resist the temptation of evil if he knew his acts could not be witnessed?”
― Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything