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"Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good."

"However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate."

"I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet."

"The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental."

"Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before."

"Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes."

"A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives."

"NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits."
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"It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet."

"Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama."

"I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show."

"I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody."

"We met and married when both of us knew exactly what our jobs were. He was only 32, but he'd been all over the place. I'd been working on films and television shows all over the world."

"Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy of being a grandmother is wonderful."

"You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world."

"In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like."

"If you're an enthusiast and you love the world like I do, it comes naturally. But I think charity must become more fun to give, more interactive and imaginative."
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