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Philip Emeagwali

"It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels."

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"It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels."

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"Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!"

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"Eagle's flight of loneliness soars so high Around its sigh, no more alone the sky Other birds remain away, clouds pass byBetween shrouds of life and haze sun rays die."

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"Biology is run by intricate cellular mechanisms. Cellular mechanisms are run by Nature. Thus, the more we attempt to understand Nature, the more we get closer to our existential properties."

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"The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing."

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"Nature is the guardian of Africa. While the sun lights the African sky in day time, the moon begs the world to help her lighting Africa in the night."

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"Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves."

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"The earth is grounding while the mountains, curvaceous and sweeping, offer a blanket of refuge. Their woods are abounding in camouflage as their leaves sway about in continuous, florid dance. There is an air of invulnerability that is exclusive to the woods, which is why she's most happy among them. She doesn't mind beasts as they are preferable to humans and much less threatening; beasts, you see, although dangerous, are incapable of the enmity that permeates beyond the shade of the woods."

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"The earth is a great piece of stupidity."

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"Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world."

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"All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;but a hidden star can still be smiling at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling."

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"I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me."
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