Ramesh

“To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“Dr. Yudkin was a University of London physiologist, nutritionist, and physician, and the primary exponent for the idea that sugar was the dietary factor promoting heart disease,”
― John Yudkin, Pure, White, and Deadly: How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It

“What I learned on my own I still remember”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“The risks of smoking have been known since the 1930s; the U.S. surgeon general report of 1964 squarely faced down the tobacco industry. That put the tobacco propaganda machine into overdrive to squelch the science and any scientists who stood in their way.”
― John Yudkin, Pure, White, and Deadly: How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It