“I started writing this book two years ago, to write the book I wish I ...” — Martín Núñez Quote

“I started writing this book two years ago, to write the book I wish I had when I was finishing my undergrad or in my first years of grad school.”

“Do not become someone else just because you are hurt. Be who you are & smile, it may solve, all problems you have got.”

“When Galileo later declared that Copernicus was right (and that the Bible was therefore wrong) in the seventeenth century, he was eventually arrested by the Inquisition and forced to recant—but not before the Catholic Church told him (and I'm paraphrasing here): "Hey, man. We all know you're probably correct about this. We concede that you're a wizard, and what you're saying makes sense. But you gotta let us explain this stuff to the rest of the world very, very slowly. We can't suddenly tell every pasta-gorged plebeian in rural Italy that we live in a heliocentric universe. It will blow their minds and fuck up our game. Just be cool for a while.”

“Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.”

“Scriptures don't bear holiness, Facts don't bear science. These are mere records of human experience - they can do good only if applied with conscience.”

“There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.”