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What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in series as hereditary… — Oswald Avery
The problem [with genetic research] is, we're just starting down this path, feeling our way in the dark. We have a small lantern in the… — Francis Collins
If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities… — Charles Lindbergh
The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it. We cannot cede… — Barack Obama
The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions. A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen,… — Gordon W. Allport
I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common I believe with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that the various forms… — Michael Faraday
We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into the history of… — Karl Marx
For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one represented them with the senses… — Henri Poincare
During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced… — Charles Darwin
Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature," that… — Thomas Huxley
Surgical knowledge depends on long practice, not from speculations. — Marcello Malpighi
"I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves… — Emile Durkheim
It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics-ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind-and the fact that… — Sigmund Freud
Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time. — Charles Francis Richter
That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been… — Charles Babbage
Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission led… — Edward Teller
...the life of the planet began the long, slow process of modulating and regulating the physical conditions of the planet. The oxygen in today's atmosphere… — Lewis Thomas
If patterns of ones and zeros were 'like' patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer… — Thomas Pynchon

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