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01 / belief
“I think one of the most amazing things about that realization is that it was made by a German hygiene scientist named Max von Pettenkofer.”
02 / belief
“Then in the 1600s, 1700s, there’s this group of people who say, “We think that there’s this invisible world of microorganisms” — fungi, bacteria, and so on, as they would be later known — that spread disease, not just in us, but in plants and so on.”
03 / belief
“In my book, Life’s Edge, I was writing about how far we can push our concepts of life and can we think about life elsewhere.”
04 / belief
“We have seen that people are certainly more than eager to jump from the basic findings of DNA to all sorts of conclusions which often serve their own interests. I think we should be on guard that we not do that again.”