Tom

“We’ve piled his plate high with shit,” Fox conceded. “And not even tied a bib around his neck,” Kaye added. “Is your afternoon grilling to be courtesy of a woman called Stoddart?”
― Ian Rankin, The Complaints

“rather than hanging around like a fart under a duvet.”
― Ian Rankin, Even Dogs in the Wild

“Much of the attention paid to CRISPR these days involves its potential to make inheritable (germline) edits in humans that will be passed along to all the cells of all of our future descendants and have the potential to alter our species. These edits are done in reproductive cells or early-stage embryos. This is what occurred with the CRISPR baby twins in China in 2018, and it is the controversial topic that I will discuss later in this book.”
― Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

“POETS Day, remember! Fox smiled to himself: Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday. It was all the invitation he needed.”
― Ian Rankin, The Impossible Dead