Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in which we do.
I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.
Claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt.
Science is a principle and a process of seeking truth. Truth cannot be purchased, and thus, truth cannot be altered by money.
I still meet old-school scientists who are like, 'Oh honey, women aren't good at science.' You kind of dismiss them as insane.
We transform the world, but we don't remember it. We adjust our baseline to the new level, and we don't recall what was there.
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.
23andMe is pleased to bring public funding to bear on data and research driven by the public - our more than 180,000 customers.
I first heard about 'genes' when I was six years old. At dinner one night, I heard my mom tell my sister, 'It's in your genes.'
We should revel in tons and tons and tons of ideas. Some of them will manifest and lead to a drug discovery, and some will not.
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
Cherish [Science], venerate her, follow her methods faithfully ... and the future of this people will be greater than the past.
Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution.
That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.
The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Women who have been recently diagnosed with breast cancer can learn a tremendous amount from women who have already been treated.
I eat some fruit every day, but not too much and almost no processed food. I stay away from sweets, except 80 per cent chocolate.
It's possible that we could change a human gene and double our life span. I don't know if that's true, but we can't rule that out.
It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms.
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.
'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them.
Making personalized medicine a reality will require a strong partnership between 23andMe and the physician and medical communities.
I wouldn't want the federal government dictating how I use my cameras, every community has their own issues and their own dynamics.
To manipulate the immune system, you need to find the key bottlenecks that govern the system. The T-cell is an absolute bottleneck.
Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple.
Incorporating genetics into a platform with the reach of ResearchKit will accelerate insights into illness and disease even further.
I grew up with my mom being very, very cheap, so when it's free, I'm like, 'Oh my God, it's free - I have to take as much as I can!'
Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.
I think the biggest problem in clinical trials is that they are underpowered. And that fundamentally, the studies are just too small.
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.
Obesity is awesome from a Wall Street perspective. It's not just one disease - there are all sorts of related diseases to profit from.
RNA interference has proven to be a quite reliable mechanism for turning genes off in a whole variety of different plants and animals.
Maybe one day we will be able to take a pill that keeps us young and healthy much longer. I believe in my heart that this will happen.
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.
If you go to the FDA with a drug that's only meant to treat 50 people, and it's a 95 percent cure rate, you'll get your drug approved.
I doubt the fact, to begin with, but if it be so even, what is this but in grand words asking me to believe a thing because I like it.
Professorship is not a career, but rather a life's pursuit. The people with whom I work daily exemplify and remind me of this promise.
I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realized that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men.
I was really raised in a gender-neutral household. I always knew I was a girl, but it never occurred to me that there was a limitation.
'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.
Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.
It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors.
Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.