In his inaugural professorial lecture at Cambridge, William Bateson, one of the fathers of Mendelian genetics, admonished students of the new science:

 If I may throw out a word of counsel to beginners, it is: Treasure your exceptions! … Keep them always uncovered and in sight. Exceptions are like the rough brickwork of a growing building which tells that there is more to come and shows where the next construction is to be. (Bateson, 1908) 

William Bateson dixit (H.G. Spencer & J.B. Wolf, 

Genomic imprinting: theories and data, Heredity, 2014)

- Denis Thatcher: You can rewind it, but you can’t change it.

Iron Lady (2011)

- Can she [Margaret Thatcher] also accept that her free market economics designed to create a growing middle class ensures that the rich get richer and the poor are irrelevant! 

Iron Lady (2011)

El que escribe un diario en su casa y lo guarda en un cajón, lo escribe también para ser leído. [...] Lo escribes a veces hasta para ser leído por ti mismo cuando tú ya no eres el que eras.

David Trueba dixit (Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados, Cadena Ser)

Our society needs criminals like Wolfgang Priklopil in order to give a face to the evil that lives within and to split it off from society itself. It needs the images of cellar dungeons so as not ot have to see the many homes in which violence rears its conformist, bourgeois head. Society uses the victims of sensational cases such as mine in order to divest itself of the responsibility for the many nameless victims of daily crimes, victims nobody helps - even when they ask for help.

3096 days [162/240]
(Natascha Kampusch, 2010, Penguin books)

The fish does not jump over the edge of the glass bowl where only death awaits.

3096 days [127/240]
(Natascha Kampusch, 2010, Penguin books)

Gratitude

 

Take nothing for granted. Even a rock will eventually surrender to the sea and love can slip away like sand through fingers

Michael Faudet

Yo no estoy haciendo una carrera estratégica, yo estoy viviendo.

Sergi López dixit ("Cómo es posible que el votante del

Frente Nacional sea inmigrante", eldiario.es)

"Por muy brillante que sea la hipótesis enunciada por un físico, no valdrá nada si no recibe una comprobación experimental"

Antonio Muñoz Molina (Fiebre de Saber, El País)

“Es increíble, pero las leyes que explican el universo caben en una hoja de papel”

Savas Dimopoulos dixit (Fiebre de Saber, Antonio Muñoz Molina, El País)

- FAQ: Can I email you?
- Ursula K. Le Guin: Please don’t.

 Ursula K. Le Guin FAQ

I just hope I don't get a bad dementia. As long as I can play credible tennis I think I belong in science. When I can't exercise I think my brain will go as well.

James Watson dixit (James Watson: thinking outside the genome, 

The Lancet, March 2014)

James Watson has become what you would call a theoretical biologist now. He spends his time trying to make connections in different areas of biology.

Professor David Tuvenson dixit
(James Watson: thinking outside the genome, The Lancet, March 2014)

I come into my office 7 days a week because I like science.

James Watson dixit (James Watson: thinking outside the genome, 

The Lancet, March 2014)

I think that new ideas come from knowing more than other people. I've been a voracious reader all my life. I'm constantly filling my brain with half memories of things I think might be important.

James Watson dixit (James Watson: thinking outside the genome, 

The Lancet, March 2014)

El sonido de la ausencia de Ryu.

Mapa de los sonidos de Tokio [64/116]
(Isabel Coixet, 2009, Tusquets Editores)

Un espeso silencio se instaló entre nosotros. El sonido del silencio que se instala entre dos personas: una que ama y otra que no sabe que es amada. El silencio más triste del mundo.

Mapa de los sonidos de Tokio [64/116]
(Isabel Coixet, 2009, Tusquets Editores)

Lágrimas tan saladas que escuecen antes de salir.

Mapa de los sonidos de Tokio [35/116]
(Isabel Coixet, 2009, Tusquets Editores)

Ella no pestañea. Casi nunca pestañea.

Mapa de los sonidos de Tokio [27/116]
(Isabel Coixet, 2009, Tusquets Editores)

La clase de sonrisa dulce que una chica guarda para aquellos hombres con los que jamás piensa en acostarse.

Mapa de los sonidos de Tokio [22/116]
(Isabel Coixet, 2009, Tusquets Editores)