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Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.

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Erwin Chargaff

There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear. In my own field the biochemist Fritz Lipmann or the much maligned Linus Pauling were very talented people. But generally, geniuses everywhere seem to have died out by 1914. Today, most are mediocrities blown up by the winds of the time.

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Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

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Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.

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If you can modify a cell, it's only a short step to modifying a mouse, and if you can modify a mouse, it's only a step to modifying a higher animal, even man.

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One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.

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You can stop splitting the atom; you can stop visiting the moon; you can stop using aerosols; you may even decide not to kill entire populations by the use of a few bombs. But you cannot recall a new form of life.

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