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There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.
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I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a…
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The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends…
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Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning…
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As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.
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Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps…
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A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians attempting to…
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From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand…
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The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given…
— G. Stanley Hall
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That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature…
— Thomas Hunt Morgan
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We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of…
— C. D. Darlington
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Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits,…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies…
— Jean Rostand
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Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods,…
— Sissela Bok
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This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes…
— George Herbert
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The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest…
— H. Bentley Glass
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