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“ Emblematic of this era was the prolific Viennese surgeon Theodor Billroth. Born in 1821, Billroth studied music and surgery with almost equal verve. (The professions still often go hand in hand. Both push manual skill to its limit; both mature with practice and age; both depend on immediacy, precision, and opposable thumbs.) ”

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If we define beauty as having blue eyes (and only blue eyes), then we will, indeed, find a gene for beauty. If we define intelligence as the performance on only one kind of test, then we will, indeed, find a gene for intelligence. The genome is only a mirror for the breadth or narrowness of human imagination.

~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

History repeats, but science reverberates.

~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Without equality, he argued, eugenics would degenerate into yet another mechanism by which the powerful could control the weak.

~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Intelligence...[is] not marathon rac[e]: there is no fixed criteria for success, no start or finish lines -- and running sideways or backwards, might secure victory.

~ Siddhartha Mukherjee