Stefan Manolache

“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Any delusions of Free Will he harbored now must be merely the prisoner rattling his cage. His curse lay in the fact that he saw the cage. He saw it!”
― Frank Herbert

“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Recently Watson and Crick have suggested that the nucleic acid of the genes is more probably in the form of two intertwining spirals. This model does not provide quite so simple a picture of the gene, since we are confronted with the difficulty of seeing how two intertwisted threads can not only reproduce themselves but then succeed in separating from one another. But even when this difficulty is overcome-and it does not seem insuperable-the change in our view of the basic structure of the gene seems to make no difference whatever to our understanding of the strategic results of gene-action which were mentioned above; it appears, in our present state of ignorance, quite irrelevant to them. Again, if we decide that selection operating on the genetic system of a population can bring about gradual alterations of the metric characteristics ofits individuals, it is more or less irrelevant to the evolutionary consequences of these changes whether they depend on a special class of gene-loci, such as the heterochromatic polygenes invoked by Mather, or on a special type of allele, such as the iso-alleles of Stern and others, or whether there is nothing very special about the genes at all, except that their effects are rather small. Again, the tactical problems, of immense interest as they are, and fundamentally important in their own context, are largely irrelevant to the strategic questions.”
― C.H. Waddington, The Strategy of the Genes