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Michael Specter has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even…
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Be sceptical, ask questions, demand proof. Demand evidence. Don't take anything for granted. But here's the thing: When you get proof, you…
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We are inhabited by as many as ten thousand bacterial species; these cells outnumber those which we consider our own by ten…
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The passengers in our microbiome contain at least four million genes, and they work constantly on our behalf: they manufacture vitamins and…
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If left untreated, Lyme disease can be crippling, yet it is a difficult illness to contract: a tick needs to attach itself…
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I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- and…
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Even a two-degree climb in average global temperatures could cause crop failures in parts of the world that can least afford to…
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Although it may seem callous to say so, millions of Americans are lucky that Magic Johnson was infected with H.I.V. There is…
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One morning every spring, for exactly two minutes, Israel comes to a stop. Pedestrians stand in place, drivers pull over to the…
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Much of modern molecular biology and microbiology has been based on the effort to decipher the basic code of life, which is…
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I have covered wars, before the epidemic began and since. They are all ugly and painful and unjust, but for me, nothing…
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Why do people refuse to vaccinate their children against measles or whooping cough? In many cases, because they have never seen measles…
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It is now widely realized that nearly all the 'classical' problems of molecular biology have either been solved or will be solved…
— Sydney Brenner
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The major credit I think Jim and I deserve ... is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true…
— Francis Crick
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Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.
— Erwin Chargaff
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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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It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved by probably some kind of Darwinian means…
— Richard Dawkins
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The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might…
— Richard Dawkins
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Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects.…
— Michael Denton
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We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such…
— Michael Shermer
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I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology.
— John Pople
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By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act…
— Paul Berg
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One can say, looking at the papers in this symposium, that the elucidation of the genetic code is indeed a great achievement.…
— Francis Crick
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The blooming of a flower is, in my mind, not a miracle. It's something that we can understand on the basis of…
— Francis Collins
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