Sumashini Sundararajan

“What Is Liberty? Actually, what is the political struggle that we witness? It is the instinctive struggle of all people toward liberty. And what is this liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties -- liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, of labor, of trade? In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so? Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism -- including, of course, legal despotism? Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self- defense; of punishing injustice?”
― Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

“There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“What sets the carbon atom apart is that it is shamelessly promiscuous.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“Taxonomy is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it’s a battleground.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything