Tom Smith

“Her dreams were full of sundering rivers and windswept plains and towering mountains with their shoulders in the clouds, of green islands verdant in the sun, of strange beasts no man had tamed and queer fruits no man had tasted, of golden cities shining underneath strange stars.”
― George R.R. Martin, Fire & Blood

“Ultimately, all science is correlation. No matter how effectively it may use one variable to describe another, its equations will always ultimately rest upon the surface of a black box. (Saint Herbert might have put it most succinctly when he observed that all proofs inevitably reduce to propositions that have no proof.) The difference between Science and Faith, therefore, is no more and no less than predictive power. Scientific insights have proven to be better predictors than Spiritual ones, at least in worldly matters; they prevail not because they are true, but simply because they work.”
― Peter Watts, Echopraxia

“Much of modern medicine is built upon the foundations that antibiotics provide, and those foundations are now crumbling.”
― Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

“Every illness is not a set of pathologies but a personal story”
― Anne fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures