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In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem.
Health is not sort of like a 6-month project. Health is a lifetime accumulation of behaviors.
Pharma companies don't have a direct relationship with consumers, so they're always subjects.
If we don't manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew.
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.
There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact.
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.
A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall.
Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female but not the male.
I spend a lot of my spare time with my family. My sisters, parents, and in-laws all live nearby.
If I were a worm, I would rather be the long-lived mutant than the normal worm, that's for sure.
Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.
I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.
Data-intensive graph problems abound in the Life Science drug discovery and development process.
Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.
The secret to a happy, successful life of paranoia is to keep careful track of your persecutors.
If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that.
In my lab, we're interested in the transition from chemistry to early biology on the early earth.
We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?
Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse.
The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic.
Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.
Our understanding of how DNA informs our health and development is advancing at an incredible pace.
Employment and health insurance are now protected by the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.
You would think that UV just causes mutations, but it doesn't; you need a gene to be active for it.
We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.
Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.
It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.
It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.
There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.
It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance.
Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!
Matter and force are the two names of the one artist who fashions the living as well as the lifeless.
No one can help another very much in these crises of life; but love and sympathy count for something.
My parents were passionate about what they did, very cheap, and very focused on doing good in society.
I've come to the conclusion that you shouldn't have to see a genetic counselor. It should be a choice.
I do let the kids play on devices when we eat out - it's better than being thrown out of a restaurant.
I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about genetic information and what you can and cannot learn.