Charles van Buren

“Fructose molecules glycate things 10 times as fast as glucose, generating much more damage. Again, this is another reason why spikes from sugary foods such as cookies (which contain fructose) make us age faster than do spikes from starchy foods such as pasta (which doesn't).”
― Jessie Inchauspé, Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar

“every man has to decide for himself, as his creed in life, whether men are to be made happier by a system that rests on and believes in coercion, or a system of self-directed agencies and moral influences; whether their continual cooperation throughout life is to be voluntary or to be imposed;”
― Auberon Herbert, Auberon Herbert: Selected Writings from a Reluctant Anarchist

“Drinking the same wines all the time is really boring.”
― Jason Wilson, Godforsaken Grapes: A Slightly Tipsy Journey through the World of Strange, Obscure, and Underappreciated Wine

“In dealing with a past that has almost entirely perished, he can only go by evidence and not by experiment. And there is hardly enough evidence to be evidential. Thus while most science moves in a sort of curve, being constantly corrected by new evidence, this science flies off into a space in a straight line uncorrected by anything.”
― G. K. CHESTERSON