Melissa Shepherd

“As Claude Bernard had prophetically suggested, the laboratory bench became the emblem of the newly emergent medical science and the locus of medical epistemology.”
― Frank M. Snowden III, Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present

“The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs against those who don't agree.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Alexander Fleming issued a prophetic warning. Penicillin, he advised, needed to be administered with care because the bacteria susceptible to it were likely to develop resistance. The selective pressure of so powerful a medicine would make it inevitable.”
― Frank M. Snowden III, Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present

“No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. —Mahatma Gandhi”
― Imogen Lloyd Webber, The Intelligent Conversationalist: 31 Cheat Sheets That Will Show You How to Talk to Anyone About Anything, Anytime