Adhoc

“My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much of them in sheer dry bulk as there is the rest of me. Looked at in this way, I could be taken for a very large, motile colony of respiring bacteria, operating a complex system of nuclei, microtubules, and neurons for the pleasure and sustenance of their families, and running, at the moment, a typewriter.”
― Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher

“Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.”
― Halldór Kiljan Laxness, Under the Glacier

“I've told you a million times not to exaggerate!”
― Wilma Flintstone

“I'm unique just like everyone else”
― Margaret Mead