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There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is subjected to a lot of radiation, which causes DNA damage, which gets repaired, but results in mutations, which create a ready mixture of plants that people can choose from to improve agriculture. Nina Fedoroff
Food Change People Plants Agriculture Our Our Planet Evolution Mutations Results Almost Genetic Genetically Because Ready Causes Mixture Subjected Lot Improve Gets Which Modification Create Modified Planet Choose Radiation Things Damage Basis
Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history. Norman Borlaug
History Man Insist Seems Available Ignoring Lessons
Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply. Norman Borlaug
Today Food Adequate Evolved Civilization Food Supply Could Supply Known Without Nor Survive
If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it. Oliver Sacks
Man Lost Eye Self He Longer Know Himself Knows Because Leg Cannot
I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many sorts which are okay, like the ones I think which most of us have in bed at night before we fall asleep, when we can see all sorts of patterns or faces and scenes. Oliver Sacks
Fall Before Think Okay See Faces Scenes Like Most Sort Bed Discussed Which Patterns Then Us Asleep Many Night Need
The dose makes the poison. Paracelsus
Poison Makes Dose
What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross. Paracelsus
Eyes Trees See Perceive Only Remedy Stones Herbs
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan. Paracelsus
Smith Process Founder Alchemy
The virus-to-cancer connection is where medicinal mushrooms offer unique opportunities for medical research. Paul Stamets
Opportunities Research Mushrooms Offer Where Connection Unique Medical Medical Research Medicinal
Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt. Peter Agre
Teacher School Language Year Young Group High Trip High School Following Russia Through Led Camping Junior Junior Year Roosevelt
In science, one should use all available resources to solve difficult problems. One of our most powerful resources is the insight of our colleagues. Peter Agre
Science Problems Difficult Our Resources Colleagues Solve Insight Powerful Most Most Powerful Available Should Use
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger. Philip Emeagwali
People Made Stronger Prison Adversities Going Being Many Homeless
When you talk to a Republican, many of them just outright say, 'Yeah. Climate change isn't real,' without assessing the facts, and it's a big problem. It's not a red or blue issue, it's a green issue... Not because of facts or science but because of emotion. Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
You Change Science Problem Big Say Emotion Outright Facts Red Talk Because Without Climate Climate Change Real Yeah Issue Green Big Problem Blue Just Republican Them Many
Truly, we do live on a 'water planet.' For us, water is that critical issue that we need. It's the most precious substance on the planet, and it links us to pretty much every environmental issue, including climate change, that we're facing. Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
Environmental Change Water Live Every Critical Pretty Facing Environmental Issue Most Climate Climate Change Issue Truly Links Precious Substance Us Much Planet Including Need
I love snowboarding. It's probably my favorite sport. I love sitting on top of the mountain and the snow falling and that silence, that snow silence. That's, like, a very peaceful, happy place for me. Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
Love Me Silence Happy Top Favorite I Love Like Sport Falling Very Mountain Snow Snowboarding Sitting Place Peaceful
It's not the case that carbon dioxide drives temperatures. When you leave Ice Ages, it's the other way around: The temperatures go up first, and then carbon dioxide levels go up. Piers Corbyn
You First Other Way Temperatures Case Drives Around Leave Go Up Ice Then Ages Carbon Carbon Dioxide Levels
The digital world has power because it has dynamic information, but it's important that we stay human instead of being another machine sitting in front of a machine. Pranav Mistry
World Digital Power Important Digital World Machine Stay Instead Another Because Sitting Front Human Being Dynamic Information
Scientific knowledge is, by its nature, provisional. This is due to the fact that as time goes on, with the invention of better instruments, more data and better data hone our understanding further. Social, cultural, economic, and political context are relevant to our understanding of how science works. Priyamvada Natarajan
Time Nature Knowledge Science Better Political Invention Understanding Our Further Relevant Data More Economic Fact Instruments Scientific Scientific Knowledge How Context Due Cultural Provisional Goes Social Works Hone
I stress the relevance of my work for cancer research because I believe that science must be useful to man. Renato Dulbecco
Work Man Science Cancer Stress Research Believe Relevance Must Because Useful
The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect. Rene Dubos
Important Extremely Delayed Indirect Most Effects Pathological The Most Important Pollution
The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. Richard Dawkins
Needs Bible Culture Reality Myth Our Poetry Because Taught Fiction Anything Literature Much Should
Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated social evolution. Richard Dawkins
Animal Complicated Filtered Our Evolution Constantly Through Behind Social Even Origins Lurking
You can legally lie about the real world to your heart's content, but until some human being is materially damaged, nobody will complain. Richard Dawkins
You Heart Lie Human Being World Will Complain Some About Nobody Until Content Real Legally Human Being The Real World Real World Your Damaged
Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to keep quiet about their atheism. Richard Dawkins
Atheist Job Out Atheism Some About Cost Academic Parts Coming His Quiet America Choose Many Keep Her
Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear. Richard Dawkins
Me Selfish Individuals Genes Altruistic Explain Actually
The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice. Richard Dawkins
Life Justice Words Nothing Universe Mad Out Evolved Would Would-Be Some Fact Attempt Years Literally After Staggering Billion Nearly
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