Sarah B

“We are fighting those who would enslave us Tainted, and yet we have gone and done it to our own. Do the ends always truly justify the means?”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“Pinto recalled in his memoirs after the war that Waelti, who was actually a Dutchman, "did not look like a very dangerous figure, sitting opposite me, hunched up and apprehensive. But then spies very often don't look sinister; it is their ability to blend with the crowd that makes them so dangerous".”
― Robert Verkaik, The Traitor of Arnhem: The Untold Story of WWII's Greatest Betrayal and the Moment that Changed History Forever

“By 1991, for instance, epidemiologist surverys in populations had revealed that high cholesterol was NOT associated with heart disease or premature death in women. Rather, the higher the cholesterol in women, the longer they lived, a finding that was so consistent across populations and surveys that it prompted an editorial in the American Heart Associations journal, Circulation: "We are coming to realize," the three authors, led by UC San Francisco epidemiologist Stephen Hulley, wrote, "the the results of cardiovascular research in men, which represents the great majority of the effort thus far, may not apply to women.”
― Gary Taubes, Rethinking Diabetes: What Science Reveals about Diet, Insulin and Successful Treatments

“Who makes the world? Is it our engineers who build our ships and bridges and skyscrapers? Is it the artist who imagine new ways of seeing? Or is the scientists who unlock the secrets of the atom?
Well I would say ...
The answer of course is all of us. The collective labor of nameless and forgotten millions throughout time. Each one a small part of the whole. Together we build this stray and wonderful thing that we call the world.”
― Jon Allen