## Metadata - Author: [[Jonathan Weiner]] - Full Title: Time, Love , Memory - Category: #books ## Highlights - In 1966 it was already clear that however else historians would remember the twentieth century, they would remember it for the discovery of the atomic theory of matter and the atomic theory of inheritance. ([Location 149](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00JNQML1I&location=149)) - To Benzer, Drosophila looked like just the happy medium he was looking for. An E. coli bacterium is a single cell. In a sense, he could think of it as a nervous system with a single neuron. At birth, a human baby has about one hundred billion neurons, one for every star in the Milky Way. A fruit fly has about one hundred thousand neurons, so it is the geometric mean between the simplest and the most complicated nervous system we know. ([Location 170](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00JNQML1I&location=170))