simply keeping people alive — decades after their lives have become defined by pain, disease, frailty, and immobility — is no virtue. - David A. Sinclair

the Royal Society. Founded in the 1600s during the Age of Enlightenment and formerly headed by Australia's catalyst, the botanist Sir Joseph Banks, as well as such legendary minds as Sir Isaac Newton and Thomas Henry Huxley, the society's cheeky motto is a pretty good one to live by: "Nullius in Verba," it says underneath the society's coat of arms. That's Latin for "Take nobody's word for it.

Die köstlichsten Erdbeeren wurden durch Phasen mit begrenzter Wasserzufuhr gestresst.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." R. P. Feynman,