Sunira

“I admired my mother in some ways, although things between us were never easy. She expected too much from me, I felt. She expected me to vindicate her life for her, and the choices she'd made. I didn't want to live my life on her terms. I didn't want to be the model offspring, the incarnation of her ideas. We used to fight about that. I am not your justification for existence, I said to her once.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

“If we won, it would mean that I wasn’t alone in believing that the world didn’t have to be a cold, unforgiving place, where the strong preyed on the weak and we inevitably fell back into clans and tribes, lashing out against the unknown and huddling against the darkness.”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“Most physicists now think that a human consciousness is required to make a photon or an electron’s “wave function” collapse so that it occupies a particular place as a particle. Otherwise it’s just a theoretical object with neither location nor motion.”
― Bob Berman, Zapped: From Infrared to X-rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light