"Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones. Speaking as World Wildlife Fund Executive Vice President, stating the need to conserve biodiversity, even plants and animals having no immediate use, as a unique repository of genes for possible future biogengineering applications."

-- Thomas Lovejoy

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“The world has found lenses on its nose without knowing whom to thank”
“God leads us step by step, from event to event. Only afterward, as we look back over the way we have come and reconsider certain important moments in our lives in the light of all that has followed them, or when we survey the whole progress of our lives, do we experience the feeling of having been led without knowing it, the feeling that God has mysteriously guided us.”

Source : Paul Tournier (1982). “Reflections: a personal guide for life's most crucial questions”, Westminster John Knox Press
“You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak.”
“Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.”
“At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.”
“In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another.”

Source : Tom Robbins (2010). “Half Asleep In Frog Pyjamas”, p.327, Random House
“You have to fight for your dream, but you also have to feel fortunate for what you have.”

Source : "Spanish staying power" by Amy Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2008.
“One of the interesting and exciting things about my job is watching technological ground being pioneered.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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