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Geneticist Inspirational Quotes (1027)

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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
James D. Watson
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I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.
Paul Nurse
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You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick
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Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?
Richard Dawkins
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This is a basic problem, to feed 6.6 billion people. Without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.
Norman Borlaug
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Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that you won't know it, and may even vigorously deny it.
Richard Dawkins
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I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction.
Richard Dawkins
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Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.
James D. Watson
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This person should have been aborted years ago.
Richard Dawkins
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Rather than believe that Watson and Crick made the DNA structure, I would rather stress that the structure made Watson and Crick.
Francis Crick
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In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in the decisively expressed average proportion of 3:1, so that among each four plants of this generation three receive the dominating and one the recessive characteristic.
Gregor Mendel
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I think there could be a very large number who are creationists by default. Those are the people I want to reach.
Richard Dawkins
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If you are religious at all, it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam false (knowing full well that you would think the opposite if you had been born in Afghanistan), you are the victim of childhood indoctrination.
Richard Dawkins
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If all the evidence in the universe turned in favour of creationism, I would be the first to admit it, and I would immediately change my mind. As things stand, however, all available evidence (and there is a vast amount of it) favours evolution.
Richard Dawkins
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We accept that people are irrational for good Darwinian reasons. But I don't think we should be so pessimistic as to think that therefore we're forever condemned to be irrational.
Richard Dawkins
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I wanted to see if I could write a good book.
James D. Watson
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Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.
Richard Dawkins
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The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.
Richard Dawkins
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Increased knowledge of heredity means increased power of control over the living thing, and as we come to understand more and more the architecture of the plant or animal we realize what can and what cannot be done towards modification or improvement.
Reginald Punnett
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We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.
Claude Shannon
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I thought, we can’t keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.
Shinya Yamanaka
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Whichever country you are, if you lose games you are criticised. It's only when it's England it's like a new world war.
Sven-Goran Eriksson
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I think God appreciates that we appreciate his creation.
Francis Collins
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If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.
Richard Dawkins
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