—Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols (1889)
—Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (2007)
—Richard Cytowic, George Washington University neurologist and one of the leading researchers on synesthesia (Smithsonian.com, January 5)
—Carl Sagan, Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995)
—Rush Holt, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at a Congressional hearing on the future of the US Environmental Protection Agency (February 8)
—Jan Vilcek, New York University biologist and founder of an organization that raises awareness of immigrant contributions to biomedical research, on the danger of President Donald Trump’s ban on immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries, one of which is Iran (The Atlantic, January 29)
