Spencer Wells Quotes
So what we can answer as geneticists is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have to contextualize it - the archaeology, the linguistic pattern, even the climatology.
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I like writing about biology, not doing it.
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My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.
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A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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There are kids going into chemistry and biology because of 'CSI.'
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
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If you don't ask the right questions, I can't give you the answers, and if you don't know the right question to ask, you're not ready for the answers
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I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.
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History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.
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Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own.
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Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.
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You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'
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You are a potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you cannot find somewhere.
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Get the facts. Ask questions and listen intently to the answers before responding.
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The truth is, some of these comments, when you actually ask 'well, this is based on what? This notion that Obama's a socialist, for example?' Nobody can really give you a good answer.
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Patterns are prostitution to the patter of parents.
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Why does everybody thing things are always contractual? I saw a shitload of questions and thought "better keep these answers short or I'll never get to all of these".
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I've kind of gotten more timid. I used to be fearless - at a certain point I didn't care about what anybody thought. I had all the answers and I could have been as bad as I wanted to be. But nowadays I just want to be good and make people happy.
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The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
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If you are lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call them. Don't text; don't e-mail. Call them on the phone.
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The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.
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So what we can answer as geneticists is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have to contextualize it - the archaeology, the linguistic pattern, even the climatology.
