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Memories sharpen the past; it is reality that decays.
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Siddhartha Mukherjee
“We of the craft are all crazy,” Lord Byron, the high priest of crazies, wrote. “Some are affected by gaiety, others by melancholy, but all are more or less touched.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

Siddhartha Mukherjee
“It took the full force of human genetics to bring sanity to the study of madness.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

Siddhartha Mukherjee
“What have I in common with Jews? I have hardly anything in common with myself. —Franz Kafka Medicine,”
Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

Siddhartha Mukherjee
“Memories sharpen the past; it is reality that decays.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

Siddhartha Mukherjee
“Every genetic “illness” is a mismatch between an organism’s genome and its environment. In some cases, the appropriate medical intervention to mitigate a disease might be to alter the environment to make it “fit” an organismal form (building alternative architectural realms for those with dwarfism; imagining alternative educational landscapes for children with autism). In other cases, conversely, it might mean changing genes to fit environments. In yet other cases, the match may be impossible to achieve: the severest forms of genetic illnesses, such as those caused by nonfunction of essential genes, are incompatible with all environments. It is a peculiar modern fallacy to imagine that the definitive solution to illness is to change nature—i.e., genes—when the environment is often more malleable. 10.”
Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

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