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"There are no new inventions, only new discoveries."

"Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood."

"Devote yourself to reading of Scriptures."

"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."

"Life is all about discovery."
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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."

"We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal."

"Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view."

"In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment."

"The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance."

"Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant."

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

"Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself."
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