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“If we define "beauty" as having blue eyes (and only blue eyes), then we will, indeed, find a "gene for beauty." If we define "intelligence" as the performance on only one kind of test, then we will, indeed, find a "gene for intelligence." The genome is only a mirror for the breadth or narrowness of human imagination.”
― The Gene: An Intimate History
― The Gene: An Intimate History
“Humans think in stories rather than in facts, numbers, or equations, and the simpler the story, the better.”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
“Humans were always far better at inventing tools than using them wisely.”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
“Modesty is a virtue,” he would later write, “yet one gets further without it.”
― The Gene: An Intimate History
― The Gene: An Intimate History
“Three profoundly destabilizing scientific ideas ricochet through the twentieth century, trisecting it into three unequal parts: the atom, the byte, the gene.”
― The Gene: An Intimate History
― The Gene: An Intimate History
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