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“It is not death that the very old tell me they fear. It is what happens short of death—losing their hearing, their memory, their best friends, their way of life.”
― Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

“Simplicity and unity, he intuitively believed, were hallmarks of the Old One's handiwork. "A theory is more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more different things it relates, and the more expanded its area of applicability," he wrote.”
― Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe

“If you know the question, you know half. —Herb Boyer”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

“It is the impulse of science to try to understand nature, and the impulse of technology to try to manipulate it. Recombinant DNA had pushed genetics from the realm of science into the realm of technology.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History