"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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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Carl Zimmer

#Challenges Quotes #Viruses Quotes #Figures Quotes

“David's mother would often tell him stories were alive. They weren't alive in the way people were alive,or even dogs or cats. People were alive whether you chose to notice them or not, while dogs tended to make you notice them if they decided that you weren't paying enough attention. Cats, meanwhile, were very good at pretending people didn't exist at all when it suited them...”
“We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.”
“Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.”

Source : Josiah Royce, John Joseph McDermott, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (2005). “The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce: Culture, philosophy, and religion”, p.633, Fordham Univ Press
“We all pretend for a while or for a lifetime. But pretending is not living...I believe that God meant for life to take our breath away, sometimes because of the sheer joy of it all and sometimes because of the severe pain. To choose living over pretending means that we will know both.”
“If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.”
“No one's ever gotten better by practicing less.”
“The power of the word is real whether or not you are conscious of it.”
“For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.”

Source : Jasper Fforde (2011). “One of our Thursdays is Missing: Thursday Next”, p.122, Hachette UK

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