Tugrul Akyuz

“To say “I love you,” Yanomami Indians of the Amazon say, “Ya pihi irakema,” meaning “I have been contaminated by your being”—a part of you has entered me, and it lives and grows.”
― David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer. A New Way of Life

“Voici seulement ce que je veux dire : Vous avez une montre, n’est-ce pas ? Eh bien, cassez un ressort, et allez la porter à ce citoyen Cornut en le priant de la raccommoder. Il vous répondra, en jurant, qu’il n’est pas horloger. Mais, si quelque chose se trouve détraqué dans cette machine infiniment compliquée qui s’appelle la France, il se croit le plus capable des hommes pour la réparer séance tenante.”
― Anonymous

“In almost every other developed country, the schools with the poorest students had more teachers per student; the opposite was true in only four countries: the United States, Israel, Slovenia, and Turkey, where the poorest schools had fewer teachers per student.”
― Amanda Ripley, The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way

“In the words of the English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, “Civilization advances by extending the number of operations which we can perform without thinking about them.”19”
― Gerd Gigerenzer, Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions