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Geneticist Inspirational Quotes (1027)

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Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.
Richard Dawkins
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The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
John B. S. Haldane
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I had turned my anxiety into my profession.
Francois Jacob
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I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: (i) this is worthless nonsense (ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view (iii) this is true, but quite unimportant (iv) I always said so.
John B. S. Haldane
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Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn't matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.
Richard Dawkins
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If there is a remedy or a cure, a solution to a problem or difficulty, why worry?
Matthieu Ricard
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I personally would go further and say that, if your morality is based, as mine is, on a desire to increase the sum of happiness and reduce suffering, the decision to deliberately give birth to a Down baby, when you have the choice to abort it early in the pregnancy, might actually be immoral from the point of view of the child’s own welfare.
Richard Dawkins
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I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.
Richard Dawkins
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At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.
Paul Nurse
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So what we can answer [as geneticists] is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have to contextualize it - the archaeology, the linguistic pattern, even the climatology.
Spencer Wells
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The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.
Ronald Fisher
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Without food, man at most can live but a few weeks without it all other components of social justice are meaningless.
Norman Borlaug
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The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.
Ronald Fisher
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I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
James D. Watson
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
Richard Dawkins
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Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts -- some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole.
Theodosius Dobzhansky
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The thing that defines a species is that all members have the same addressing system for their DNA.
Richard Dawkins
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The dream of every cell is to become two cells.
Francois Jacob
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Charles Darwin made arguably the greatest discovery any human has ever made. He was a man of great persistence. He wasn't probably a natural genius, he worked very hard - even though he was an invalid. He was a great family man, a very nice man. I think he was admirable in all sorts of ways.
Richard Dawkins
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Everybody has to learn for the first time.
Joshua Lederberg
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I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me, and followed me around in my dreams.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
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Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason. . . .
Luther Burbank
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I do like Philip Pullman.And that's an exception because Philip Pullman's books allow magic.
Richard Dawkins
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The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected.
Cynthia Kenyon
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