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"We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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"Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish."
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"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."
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"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."
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"You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year."
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"I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid."
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"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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"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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"We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us."
World
"Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves."
Research
"Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties."
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"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."
People
"It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you."
Change
"I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background."
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"The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance."
Evolution
"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."
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