"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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"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 virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought."

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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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