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“impersonal repositories of attention to be exploited without mercy, until we’re all used up.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“The heart of the cell is the nucleus. It contains the cell’s DNA—three feet of it, as we have already noted, scrunched into a space that we may reasonably call infinitesimal. The reason so much DNA can fit into a cell nucleus is that it is exquisitely thin. You would need twenty billion strands of DNA laid side by side to make the width of the finest human hair. Every cell in your body (strictly speaking, every cell with a nucleus) holds two copies of your DNA. That’s why you have enough to stretch to Pluto and beyond.”
― Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants

“wonder about the reality waiting behind our assumptions.”
― Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

“But there are not just two times. Times are legion: a different one for every point in space. There is not one single time; there is a vast multitude of them.”
― Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time