John Sulston Quotes
If you patent a discovery which is unique, say a human gene or even just one particular function of a human gene, then you are actually creating a monopoly, and that's not the purpose of the world of patents.
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Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
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I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.
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The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
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High fashion has become representative of stability in unstable places; that allows you to have a voice in the world stage.
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I would say that Juventus is a myth not only in Italy, because it's the most loved team in Italy, but also around the world. And it has been in my family since birth.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.
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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.
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How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.
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I am a total workaholic. If I don't shoot for two days, I get uncomfortable at home. I won't comment on my personal life. That is totally out of bounds. When I do get married, everyone will know.
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When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.
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Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.
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As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.
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Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
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I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.
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I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.
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I really believe the nexus of terrorism and nuclear weapons is the world's most ominous threat.
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Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it wasn't just in my family. Sometimes, you'd see, you know, Mom fighting with one of her boyfriends. But a lot of times, you'd see people exploding on each other in a local restaurant or on the street.
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Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.
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Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?
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I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.
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[As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to be arises with real relevance for the first time, since the burden of being is felt most fully by the self-determining self.
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Some of those who crafted the Constitution had serious doubts about tax-supported clergy. James Madison, for example, wrote that such employment was a “palpable violation of equal rights as well as Constitutional principles” and a “national establishment” of religion.10 He suggested that if Congress wanted chaplains to discharge religious duties, members should pay for them from their own pockets. “How just would it be in its principle!” he proclaimed.
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If you patent a discovery which is unique, say a human gene or even just one particular function of a human gene, then you are actually creating a monopoly, and that's not the purpose of the world of patents.
