“ Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria. ”
- Richard Dawkins- Copy
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“ Amoebas at the start were not complex - They tore themselves apart and started sex. ”
- Arthur Guiterman- Copy
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“ A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress — though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
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“ For theories and schools, like microbes and corpuscles, devour one another and by their strife ensure the continuity of life. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
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“ We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. ”
- Jacob Bronowski- Copy
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“ Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable. ”
- Amanda Heggs- Copy
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“ Surfing people haven't learned anything from the I Love You virus. ”
- Anna Kournikova- Copy
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“ Microbes are doing things we didn't even know they could do 10 years ago. ”
- Robert Jackson- Copy
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“ They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival. ”
- Jeremy Rifkin- Copy
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“ Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops. ”
- Jeremy Rifkin- Copy
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“ Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being. ”
- Walter Gilbert- Copy
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“ Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blowwom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity. ”
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper- Copy
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“ Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. ”
- Thomas Dunn English- Copy
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“ Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity. ”
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper- Copy
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“ Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage… true success follows every right step. ”
- Orison S. Marden- Copy
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“ Today a man discovered gold and fame, Another flew the stormy seas; Another set an unarmed world aflame, One found the germ of a disease. But what high fates my path attend for Ioday found a friend. ”
- Helen Barker Parker- Copy
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“ Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement — discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
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“ Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds. ”
- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale- Copy
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