Vignesh Vijay

“History repeats itself, in part because the genome repeats itself. And the genome repeats itself, in part because history does. The impulses, ambitions, fantasies, and desires that drive human history are, at least in part, encoded in the human genome. And human history has, in turn, selected genomes that carry these impulses, ambitions, fantasies, and desires. This self-fulfilling circle of logic is responsible for some of the most magnificent and evocative qualities in our species, but also some of the most reprehensible. It is far too much to ask ourselves to escape the orbit of this logic, but recognizing its inherent circularity, and being skeptical of its overreach, might protect the week from the will of the strong, and the 'mutant' from being annihilated by the 'normal'.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

“It's not who you are that holds you back, it's the unproductive thoughts you focus on and act upon by ignorance.”
― Brandon Garic Notch, Death Is Only the Beginning: Making Way For the New

“May I write words more naked than flesh,
stronger than bone, more resilient than
sinew, sensitive than nerve.”
― Sappho

“Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.”
― Bruce Lee