Eric Lander Quotes
Darwin and his descendants couldn't have asked for a better example of how you make scientific predictions and how you verify them in a very rigorous way.
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I have one desire: That is to have a principle-based, member-driven Congress. Period. That's what I want.
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The single greatest thing you can do to change your life today would be to start being grateful for what you have right now. And the more grateful you are, the more you get.
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We're richer, but that wealth doesn't reflect durable, authentic economic value - which is hitting fast diminishing returns. The growth that we're pursuing is neither sustainable - nor is it, in many ways, real growth at all. Boardrooms from finance to autos to energy to pharma to fashion have learned that the hard way.
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To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa.
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In one of my latest conversations with Darwin he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity, on the ground that in our modern civilization natural selection had no play, and the fittest did not survive. Those who succeed in the race for wealth are by no means the best or the most intelligent, and it is notorious that our population is more largely renewed in each generation from the lower than from the middle and upper classes.
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The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
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I find it hard to argue with Reagan's old slogan: Trust, but verify.
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When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
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One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future.
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The confirmations of novel predictions resulting from bold conjectures are very important in the falsificationist account of the growth of science.
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I you're writing memoir, but it even comes up in fiction. People just assume that you're writing thinly veiled autobiography. And particularly, I think, for people of color, our work is always seen as kind of anthropological artifact regardless. So, there's always going to be that assumption, but even more so in a memoir because often the names aren't even changed. It is easier to verify.
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Your courage in the grove surprised me. Surprise is a reaction I had all but forgotten. I have seen enough that I alway know what to expect. I assess the odds of various outcomes, and me predictions are never thwarted. before you were finished confronting the revenant, the potion failed. I saw the artificial bravado leave you. Your demise was certain. Yet, despite my certainty, you removed the nail. Had you been full-grown, a seasoned hero of legendary renown, well-trained, armed with charms and talismans, I would have been deeply impressed. But for a mere boy to preform such a feat? I was truly surprised.
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We must prove our predictions about the future with action.
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Rule 1. Original data should be presented in a way that will preserve the evidence in the original data for all the predictions assumed to be useful.
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I never make predictions and I never will.
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My instinct is to be very controlling.
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Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.
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No. Well, one driver was in two pieces ... but that's about it.
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One of the big challenges now is to figure out just how many viruses there really are in the human genome. So far the estimate is 8.3% of our genome is virus, but it actually could be a lot higher.
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Darwin and his descendants couldn't have asked for a better example of how you make scientific predictions and how you verify them in a very rigorous way.
