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"As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it."
Detail

"So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us."
Right

"I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects."
Communication

"Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy."
Personality

"To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing."
Attention

"If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications."
Years

"Everybody has to learn for the first time."
Time

"Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things."
Age

"If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk."
Society

"When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells."
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"In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them."
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"Caress the detail, the divine detail."
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"You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion."
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"A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable."
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"As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it."
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"The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world."
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"To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail."
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"Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture."
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"There are a lot of times that if a detail in a scene or a beat, feels unnatural, they'll allow me to explore another direction to go until we're all comfortable with what we are doing."
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"Like most little girls, I found the lure of grown-up accessories astonishing - lipstick, perfume, hats and gloves. When I write female characters in my historical novels, getting these details right is vital."
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