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“You are not your genes, and you are not your ancestors. Most of your ancestry is lost, and can never be recovered. We can be clear on this with absolute certainty: you are descended from multitudes, from all around the world, from people you think you know, and from more you know nothing about. You will have no meaningful genetic link to many of them. These are the facts of biology.”
― Adam Rutherford, How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference

“Belief unconfirmed by experiment is vain.”
― Francesco Redi, Experiments On the Generation of Insects

“More just it is doubtless, if it com to force, that a less number compel a greater to retain, which can be no wrong to them, thir libertie, then that a greater number for the pleasure of their baseness, compel a less most injuriously to be thir fellow slaves.”
― John Milton, The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth

“It is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism.”
― Slavoj Žižek