Robert Winston Quotes
Of course it is a very simple matter to identify genes which might modify intelligence or memory and start thinking about whether you want to enhance a human, and the next generation is going to have to deal with that issue. Should we be trying to enhance humans rather than trying to educate them and so on?
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
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I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence.
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
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Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
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They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
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Cryptocurrencies will create a fifth protocol layer powering the next generation of the Internet.
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The right to communicate is a basic human right, and I believe that putting that on every national agenda is very important.
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I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing.
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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
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That Logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent from the fact that, since Aristotle, it has been unable to advance a step, and thus to all appearance has reached its completion.
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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
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I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.
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My whole 'WWE' career has been rebuilding myself and finding the confidence that I once had. It's been one hell of a journey. There have been times I felt like the prodigal son because I left wrestling and abandoned this thing that I loved.
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Of course it is a very simple matter to identify genes which might modify intelligence or memory and start thinking about whether you want to enhance a human, and the next generation is going to have to deal with that issue. Should we be trying to enhance humans rather than trying to educate them and so on?
