The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2013 Quotes

“Facebook users have higher levels of total narcissism, exhibitionism, and leadership than Facebook nonusers,” the study’s authors wrote. “In fact, it could be argued that Facebook specifically gratifies the narcissistic individual’s need to engage in self-promoting and superficial behavior.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2013

“In an age of increasingly mechanized production, the genesis of scientific knowledge remains an unyieldingly, obstreperously hand-hewn process. It is among the most human of our activities. Far from being subsumed by the dehumanizing effects of technology, science remains our last stand against it.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2013

“But another truth should be foremost in mind: that what we call nature today is a kinder, gentler, more depauperate world than at any time since at least the late Paleozoic, some 300 million years ago. Nature is not a temple but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2013

“Most of the selected essays share a common thread: They describe how science happens.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013

“Nature is not a temple but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2013