"We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology."

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"We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology."

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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

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"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."

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"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

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"People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success that's the job of vision."

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"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."

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"I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids."

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"The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age."

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"At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book."

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"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."

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"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

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"The industry's not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled "genetically engineered," the public will shy away and won't take them."

Public, Will

"We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology."

Age, First, Physics

"Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies."

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"Europe will not accept genetically modified foods. It doesn't make any difference in the final analysis what Brussels does, what Washington does, or what the World Trade Organization does."

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"Here we are 17 years later. Those agencies never did come through."

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"I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course."

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"Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops."

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"You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect."

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"We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate."

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"Back in the mid-1980s, congressional hearings were held after we brought this litigation, and held up the first experiment. At that time, I went in front of Congress, along with the major agencies involved with this."

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