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“[Locating, from scratch, the gene related to a disease is like] trying to find a burned-out light bulb in a house located somewhere between the East and West coasts without knowing the state, much less the town or street the house is on.”

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Francis Collins

Francis Collins is a renowned American physician and geneticist, known for his groundbreaking work in human genomics, particularly his leadership role in the Human Genome Project. Born on April 14, 1950, Collins' research has had a profound impact on the fields of medicine and biology. more

“[There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding about what human beings can do to themselves in the way of being led astray by subjective effects, wishful thinking or threshold interactions. These are examples of pathological science. These are things that attracted a great deal of attention. Usually hundreds of papers have been published upon them. Sometimes they have lasted for fifteen or twenty years and then they gradually die away.”

“A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.”

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Author:James Freeman Clarke

“[T]he yeoman's work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.”

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Author:Michio Kaku

“...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating oneself, one pushes the inquiry only to the point at which one can no longer offer any opposition. Hence a good inquirer will be one who is ready in bringing forward the objections proper to the genus, and that he will be when he has gained an understanding of the differences.”

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Book:The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle

Source: The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle

“It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.”

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Book:Riders on the Earth: essays and recollections

Source: Riders on the Earth: essays and recollections

“People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.”

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Book:In Pursuit of Laughter ...

Source: In Pursuit of Laughter ...

“Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children.”

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Author:Phillips Brooks

“Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.”