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“We are technocrats. We make decisions like engineers. Which doesn't always line up with what people imagine they want.”
― Seveneves
― Seveneves
“An arcane microbial defense, devised by microbes, discovered by yogurt engineers, and reprogrammed by RNA biologists, has created a trapdoor to the transformative technology that geneticists had sought so longingly for decades: a method to achieve directed, efficient, and sequence-specific modification of the human genome.”
― The Gene: An Intimate History
― The Gene: An Intimate History
“The way the creative process works is that you first say something, and later, sometimes years later, you understand what you said.”
― The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
― The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
“Bill by bill, and letter by letter, his scientific imagination was slowly choked by administrative work.”
― The Gene: An Intimate History
― The Gene: An Intimate History
“Choice," in short, seems like an illusion devised by genes to propagate the selection of similar genes.”
― The Gene: An Intimate History
― The Gene: An Intimate History
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