George M. Church famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

This is a whole new era where we're moving beyond little edits on single genes to being able to write whatever we want throughout the genome. The goal is to be able to change it as radically as our understanding permits.
-- George M. Church

#Moving #Writing #Goal
The main goal is to increase diversity. The one thing that is bad for society is low diversity. This is true for culture or evolution, for species and also for whole societies. If you become a monoculture, you are at great risk of perishing.
-- George M. Church

#Diversity #Goal #Risk
I have faith that science is a good thing. Seriously, I'd say that I am very much in awe of nature. In fact, I think to some extent, "awe" was a word that was almost invented for scientists.
-- George M. Church

#Thinking #Have Faith #Facts
A poet sees a flower and can go on and on about how beautiful the colors are. But what the poet doesn't see is the xylem and the phloem and the pollen and the thousands of generations of breeding and the billions of years before that. All of that is only available to the scientists.
-- George M. Church

#Beautiful #Flower #Color
The recreation of Neanderthals would be mainly a question of societal risk avoidance.
-- George M. Church

#Risk #Neanderthals #Would Be
Faith is a very powerful force in the history of humanity. So I greatly respect different kinds of faith. Just as I think diversity is a really good thing genetically, it's also a good thing societally.
-- George M. Church

#Powerful #Thinking #Diversity
Neanderthals might think differently than we do. We know that they had a larger cranial size. They could even be more intelligent than us. When the time comes to deal with an epidemic or getting off the planet or whatever, it's conceivable that their way of thinking could be beneficial.
-- George M. Church

#Intelligent #Thinking #Epidemics

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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
It didn't mean forever but for right now I wanted Rush to be my first. He wouldn't be my last. A stop I might never forget or get over. That was what scared me the most. Not being able to move on.
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.
The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity.

George M. Church famous quotes

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