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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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