"If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about."

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Source : "Funding above and beyond scientific research". EMBO reports Interview, embor.embopress.org. September 2001.

Thomas Cech

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“Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.”
“This treaty [Kyoto] is, in our opinion, based upon flawed ideas. Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful...agreement would have very negative effects upon the technology of nations throughout the world, especially those that are currently attempting to lift from poverty and provide opportunities to the over 4 billion people in technologically underdeveloped countries.”
“One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding.”
“I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much.”
“This is why I respect those who are curious about God, but I beware of those who claim to find Him.”
“There is no particular reason to search for meaning.”
“There is no choice for him but to believe. He has nothing left to give in offering.”
“When I moved to L.A., I was penniless, absolutely beyond broke and in debt up to my eyeballs.”

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