Darren Nguyen

“An all-purpose expert is an oxymoron.”
― Naomi Oreskes, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

“But the Mohawk call themselves the Kanienkeha - People of the Flint - and flint does not melt easily into the great American melting pot”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

“(...) Language acquisition might be like other biological functions. The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just as the decrepitude of age is the price we pay for the vigor of youth.”
― Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

“May the world near and far dread the sons of Aeneas, and if there be land that feared not Rome, may it love Rome instead.”
― Ovid