Luis Brudna

“Eight of the nation’s top ten soft drinks are caffeinated.”
― Murray Carpenter, Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts, and Hooks Us

“Every day in the human body, some 10 billion cells die and are replaced by new cells. The cells that die do not meet a violent unpremeditated end, but are removed silently and unnoticed by apoptosis, all evidence of their demise eaten by neighbouring cells. This means that apoptosis balances cell division”
― Nick Lane, Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the meaning of life

“Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear that he ever really did.”
― Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

“It’s a sociological law that the more information you give people, the more government policy becomes dependent on public opinion.’ Those were the words of Rafael Safarov,”
― Archie Brown, The Rise and Fall of Communism