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For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, , the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.

If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures?

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I’ll bet you’ll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.