Shimjith Singh

“The end-Permian or Permo-Triassic extinction was the biggest of the Big Five, an episode that came scarily close to eliminating multicellular life altogether.”
― Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

“partial script was composed of ten signs, representing the numbers from 0 to 9. Confusingly, these signs are known as Arabic numerals even though they were first invented by the Hindus (even more confusingly, modern Arabs use a set of digits that look quite different from Western ones). But the Arabs get the credit because when they invaded India they encountered the system, understood its usefulness, refined it, and spread it through the Middle East and then to Europe. When”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“you’re a carnivore, you’re a carnivore, so what’s the merit of fine distinctions?”
― David Quammen, Spillover: the powerful, prescient book that predicted the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.

“Most people wrote and received no more than a handful of letters a month and seldom felt compelled to reply immediately. Today I receive dozens of emails each day, all from people who expect a prompt reply. We thought we were saving time; instead we revved up the treadmill of life to ten times its former speed and made our days more anxious and agitated.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind