Abrar

“I have always had a great need for solitude. I require huge swathes of loneliness and when I do not have it, which has been the case for the last five years, my frustration can sometimes become almost panicked, or aggressive.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, My Struggle: Book 1

“In the laboratory, we call this the six-degrees-of-separation-from-cancer rule: you can ask any biological question, no matter how seemingly distant—what makes the heart fail, or why worms age, or even how birds learn songs—and you will end up, in fewer than six genetic steps, connecting with a proto-oncogene or tumor suppressor.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

“في ميكانيزم الدفاع تلتجئ الذات إلى الماضي وتحتمي به لتؤكد من خلاله وبواسطته شخصيتها ولذلك يعمد الإنسان إلى تضخميه وتمجيده مادام الخطر الخارجي قائما ، اما في ميكانيزم النهضة فالإنسان لا يطلب الماضي لذاته بل يختزله في " اصول" يعيد إحياءها، علي صعيد الوعي كذلك ، والانطلاق إلى المستقبل ، تفكيراً وممارسة . ”
― محمد عابد الجابري, إشكاليات الفكر العربي المعاصر

“How can one capture genes that behave like ghosts," Weinberg wrote, "influencing cells from behind some dark curtain?”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer