Burcu Tepekule

“A plant on the edge of a desert is said to struggle for life against the drought, though more properly it should be said to be dependent on the moisture”
― Ernst W. Mayr, What Evolution Is

“Well, biology is not only about genes and environment, but also cells and the constraints of their physical structure, which we shall see have little to do with either genes or environment directly. The predictions that arise from these disparate world views are strikingly different.”
― Nick Lane, The Vital Question: Why is life the way it is?

“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“change requires destruction, whether or not you value the destroyed.”
― Andreas Wagner, Paradoxical Life