jonayed Hasan

“Two thousand five hundred years ago, at dawn on a day like today, Socrates took a stroll around Piraeus with Glaucon, Plato’s older brother. Glaucon told the story of a shepherd from the kingdom of Lydia who once found a ring, slipped it on his finger and realized that no one could see him. The magic ring made him invisible in the eyes of all others. Socrates and Glaucon philosophized lengthily on the moral of the story. But neither of the two wondered why women and slaves were invisible in Greece even though they never used magic rings.”
― Eduardo Galeano, Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History

“It was one thing to get the sequence of one little piece of mtDNA that looked interesting from the Neanderthal fossil, but it would be quite another to convince ourselves, let alone the rest of the world,”
― Svante Pääbo, Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes

“I myself had often suggested that extraordinary claims about DNA sequences from ancient bones require extraordinary evidence—namely, repetition of the results in another lab, an unusual step in a typically competitive scientific field.”
― Svante Pääbo, Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes

“To see the worlds of the world, shift your eyes. To have the birds hear your song, shift your throat.”
― Eduardo Galeano, Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History