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John Locke

"It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean."

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"It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean."

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"Alas! It seems to me that when one is as good as this at dissecting children who are to born, one can't stiffen up enough to create them."

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"The total amount of energy from outside the solar system ever received by all the radio telescopes on the planet Earth is less than the energy of a single snowflake striking the ground."

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"What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth."

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"We are well on our way to a unified theory of biology that will merge body and environment, brain and mind, genome and microbiome."

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"In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle."

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"Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think."

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