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The hope is that if we can increase youthfulness, we can postpone age-related diseases.
One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena.
A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
There are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals.
The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing.
I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth.
There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.
Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
There is no controversy within science over the core proposition of evolutionary theory.
I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.
We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play.
Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified.
Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.
Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.
If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.
We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.
Genetic testing in the future is going to be seen as critical as testing your cholesterol.
As a child, I had a teacher who told me, 'Look, Anne, one person can't make a difference.'
I had a very unusual childhood in that I grew up on the Stanford campus and I never moved.
Being the first FDA-authorized direct-to-consumer genetic test out there is revolutionary.
It was like stepping on to an escalator; I could do anything. I was just made for science.
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
I will give up my belief in evolution if someone finds a fossil rabbit in the Precambrian.
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.
Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes.
The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition.
I feel that gender balance in the work environment is actually the best recipe for success.
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.
In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story.
To know how scientists engage in visual imagery is to understand how they think creatively.
To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution.
Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.
I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.
There are some persons we could not cut down to size without diminishing ourselves as well.
For scientific researchers, charitable donations are enormous engines of new opportunities.
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
It doesn't matter how rich or poor you are: when you're sick, you want the exact same thing.
All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.