Walter Gilbert Quotes
We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
Quotes to Explore
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I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.
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There may be an evolutionary advantage for schizophrenia genes during famine.
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I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
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I am passionate about human rights.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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Our expectation is that the Russian Federation does its part to protect its own citizens in full respect of human rights principles.
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As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
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The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
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Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
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For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.
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Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.
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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
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None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.
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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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Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.
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Nothing can be more demoralizing than a clinging and abject dependence upon another human being. This often amounts to the demand for a degree of protection and love that no one could possibly satisfy. So our hoped for protectors finally flee, and once more we are left alone - either to grow up or to disintegrate.
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I fail all the time, but we are all just human and imperfect, but you know what's best for you, so follow your gut. That's probably my biggest life lesson, follow your gut.
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And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.
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When you're around people who are trying to be funny all day and trying to one-up each other, that's just naturally - if you want to do it - it's going to make you better.
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We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
