Burcu Tepekule

“The searching human mind is not satisfied merely to discover facts. We also want to know how things happen and why.”
― Ernst W. Mayr, What Evolution Is

“In our belief that we are the center of the universe, we have assumed much, just to be proven wrong time and again: No, the solar system does not revolve around Earth. No, the universe does not end beyond Pluto, or even beyond our Milky Way galaxy, but it is much bigger than we ever thought, full of stars in some places, but for the most part filled with staggering emptiness. No, there is no special life force—our bodies are part of nature, run by molecules. And no, we are not a separate creation from all the other animals, but are their close cousins—all, including ourselves, historical accidents of evolution. In short, we are lucky to be here.”
― Peter M. Hoffmann, Life's Ratchet: How Molecular Machines Extract Order from Chaos

“If we stopped arguing for one true view and conceded that we had a choice in this matter, we might gain the ability to choose flexibly. We could then more easily choose perspectives that allow us to solve problems we humans care about, problems that require delicate decisions, such as how to best distribute resources in a country, how to provide for and educate a population, and how to improve its intelligence.”
― Andreas Wagner, Paradoxical Life

“It’s easy to make perfect decisions with perfect information. Medicine asks you to make perfect decisions with imperfect information.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Laws of Medicine: Field Notes from an Uncertain Science