If you can modify a cell, it's only a short step to modifying a mouse, and if you … - Erwin Chargaff

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In order to be able to work with somebody in acting, you've first got to think that person's a good actor before you can enjoy working with them. I guess that goes with the trust.

Erwin Chargaff

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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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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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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Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth.

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