"About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before."

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Source : "Are Microbes The Next Frontier?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 12, 2014.

Nathan Wolfe

#Noses Quotes #Information Quotes

“When I read the documents relative to the Modernism, as it was defined by Saint Pius X, and when I compare them to the documents of the II Vatican Council, I cannot help being bewildered. For what was condemned as heresy in 1906 was proclaimed as what is and should be from now on the doctrine and method of the Church. In other words, the modernists of 1906 were, somewhat, precursors to me. My masters were part of them. My parents taught me Modernism. How could Saint Pius X reject those that now seem to be my precursors?”
“In the life of a nation, few ideas are more dangerous than good solutions to the wrong problems.”
“I think it is very important to conserve and protect the natural world. Iâ€™ve just come back from Costa Rica and they are really big on eco tourism. They have lots of reserves, and they are really into protecting wildlife. I visited a reserve called Cabo Blanco. You walk into the reserve and there are capucine monkeys swinging from the trees and sloths. I am big into nature, and seeing animals in their natural habitats. I love it.”
“But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.”
“If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit.”
“I'm welding the bimbo room shut.”
“... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.”
“I am born connected. I am born remembering rivers flowing from my mother's body into my body.”

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