David Marcos

“that the largest “negative eugenics” project in human history was not the systemic extermination of Jews in Nazi Germany or Austria in the 1930s. That ghastly distinction falls on India and China, where more than 10 million female children are missing from adulthood because of infanticide, abortion, and neglect of female children. Depraved”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

“Whatever that guy is buying, I want to short it.”
― Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

“A model is a lie that helps you see the truth. —Howard Skipper”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

“How does language interact with thought? Does language enable us to think, or does thinking enable us to talk? Can we think in a sophisticated manner without silent internal speech? And lastly, how did this extraordinarily complex, multicomponent system originally come into existence in our hominin ancestors?”
― V.S. Ramachandran, The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human