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The old age of lower mammals presents characters similar to those found in man.
To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.
The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.
If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
We have been trained not to think about our health care until there's a problem.
Not all ants use violence to dominate their world, some use more subtle methods.
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
We assume that we’re masters of our environment, rather than being a part of it.
If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
All of the clean technologies are known, it's a question of simply applying them.
Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.
We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies.
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste. The biologist passes, the frog remains.
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
I have always been interested in health care and doing something that is dramatic.
One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.
The American Cancer Society has done the American public a really great disservice.
Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
The range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male.
The beginning of wisdom, as the Chinese say, is calling things by their right names.
Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.
If you just focus on the smallest details, you will never get the big picture right.
Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.
What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.
To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.
That is the great mystery of human evolution: how to account for calculus and Mozart.
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
We are prone to see what lies behind our eyes, rather than what apprears before them.
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
I want to make a difference in the world because I believe that's what science is for.
I think they are looking for publicity and they are looking for a name for themselves.
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
If consumers were more empowered, they would take more responsibility for their health.