"Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being."

Animals, Being, Will

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"Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being."

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"By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new."

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