"The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA."

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Source : Spencer Wells (2012). “The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey”, p.195, Random House

Spencer Wells

#Book Quotes #Dna Quotes

“Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.”
“The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.”
“You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing... Gesture has no precise edges, no forms. The forms are in the act of changing. Gesture is movement in space.”
“It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition.”
“This summer I have discovered something totally useless.”

Source : "The Hunt for the Higgs Boson". Science Scotland, issue no. 3, www.sciencescotland.org. Winter 2004.
“We are also rather concerned about our moorhen who went mad while we were in Italy and began to build a nest in a tree. ... she walks about in the tree, looking as uneasy yet persevering as a district visitor in a brothel.”
“I don't really collect anything. I grew up in a family that collected things and then they'd get sick and people die and then they have their basements full of stuff that goes from one box to the next, so I try not to get sentimental with stuff. I just try to collect memories.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“You know how arrogant the French are - extraordinary.”

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