Robyn

“How much vanity must be concealed-not too effectively at that- in order to pretend that one is the personal object of a divine plan?”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“Or to think that before Pasteur's discovery of microbes, doctors fought duels over the merits of balsam of Peru vs. tar oil for wound infection. Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion. Still, each generation of physicians imagined that ignorance was the special provenance of their elders.”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone