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"We no longer have to resort to superstition when faced with the deep problems: Is there a meaning to life? What are we for? What is man?"

"If you can't be criticized, that's very dangerous."

"... God must also be an incredible physicist ... there is this phenomenal fine-tuning of the universe that makes complexity and, therefore, life possible."

"Developing countries can leapfrog several stages in the development process through the application of bio-technology in agriculture"

"The overriding supremacy of the myth has created a widespread illusion that the theory of evolution was all but proved one hundred years ago . . . Nothing could be further from the truth."

"The more we can be with our own difficulty, our own pain, the easier it is to be with the pain and difficulties of others."

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🇺🇸Theodosius Dobzhansky

Science

1900–1975

"The greatest evolutionist of our century."

"What’s the use of doing all this work if we don't get some fun out of this?"

"Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table."

"Both of us had decided, quite independently of each other, that the central problem in molecular biology was the chemical structure of the gene."

"Understanding how DNA makes us who we are will teach us to be more tolerant of each other."

"I think for the first time we can attack the fundamental biology of man."

"Based on the virus genome and properties, there is no indication whatsoever that it was an engineered virus."

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🇺🇸Jeffrey Friedman (political scientist)

Science

b. 1954

"Why, if the liberty of a human being to own another should be trumped by equal human rights, the liberty to own large amounts of property should not also be trumped by equal human rights?"

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🇺🇸Claude Elwood Shannon

Mathematics

1916–2001

"A few first rate research papers are preferable to a large number that are poorly conceived or half-finished. The latter are no credit to their writers and a waste of time to their readers."

"There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort."

"Ever since Sir Isaac Newton's times, scientists have worked in the same sort of way:"

"Our choices from diet to outlook to emotional state directly alter our neural and gene activity at every moment."

"1913 Catholic Encyclopedia entry, "Mendel, Mendelism"

"Once data are ruled out as arbiters among theories, those theories become pointless, just another clever intellectual game."

"Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on their frequencies in the population."

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