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“As you kind of get over the anxiety about [science and evolution], it actually adds to your sense of awe about this amazing universe that we live in, it doesn't subtract from it at all.”

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All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.

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I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be…

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I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.

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I finished up my graduate degree in quantum mechanics, but underwent a bit of a personal crisis, recognizing that I didn't want to do…

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One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.

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Genes are effectively one-dimensional. If you write down the sequence of A, C, G and T, that's kind of what you need to know…

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By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.

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Science is...a powerful way, indeed - to study the natural world. Science is not particularly effective...in making commentary about the supernatural world. Both worlds,…

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Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

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A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the…

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I may add that we have more than once stated our willingness to conclude nonaggression pacts with the states neighboring our own!

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The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

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New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds…

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