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Lewis Thomas has 132 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him,…
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Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real…
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The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything.…
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I cannot think of a single field in biology or medicine in which we can claim genuine understanding, and it seems to…
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Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat…
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I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats,…
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I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very small things,…
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It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be…
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The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles,…
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It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There…
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It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality…
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Chemical waste products are the droppings of science.
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By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.
— Barry Schuler
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As was predicted at the beginning of the Human Genome Project, getting the sequence will be the easy part as only technical…
— Sydney Brenner
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[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all…
— Francis Collins
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The big idea we start with is: "How is the genome interpreted, and how are stable decisions that affect gene expression inherited…
— Shirley M. Tilghman
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Although life is a continuous process, fertilization is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is…
— Unknown Author
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We have learned nothing from the genome.
— Craig Venter
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The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. He can be worshipped in the cathedral or in the…
— Francis Collins
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Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
— Danny Hillis
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Living in your genome is the history of our species.
— Barry Schuler
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We’re still getting a lot of the popular conception that’s grounded in the one-way, causal image of the genome. The idea that…
— Unknown Author
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Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
— Adam Savage
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Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.
— Craig Venter
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