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“A young graduate student, Linda Vigilant, who arrived at the lab on a motorcycle every morning, was doing this work. I was peripherally aware of her boyish charm but saw her mostly as a competitor for time on the coveted PCR machine. Little did I know that at a later time and in another country, we would be married and have children together.”
― Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
― Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
“Back in the year 960, Christian missionaries invaded Scandinavia and threatened the Vikings: if you persist in your pagan customs you will end up in hell where eternal fires burn. The Vikings welcomed the good news. They trembled from cold, not fear.”
― Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History
― Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History
“THE ENCOUNTER The door was closed: “Who is it?” “It’s me.” “I don’t know you.” And the door remained closed. The following day: “Who is it?” “It’s me.” “I don’t know who you are.” And the door remained closed. Then the following day: “Who is it?” “It’s you.” And the door opened. —From the Persian poet Farid al-Din Attar, born in 1142 in the city of Nishapur”
― Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History
― Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History
“To see the worlds of the world, shift your eyes. To have the birds hear your song, shift your throat.”
― Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History
― Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History
“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.”
― Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History
― Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History
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