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What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
~ Sylvia Earle
Against
Fish
Now
Once
Use
Used
War
Weapons
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When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.
~ Sylvia Earle
Abundant
Arrived
Billion
Less
More
Now
Only
Planet
Reversed
Situation
Two
Were
Wildlife
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When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.
~ Sylvia Earle
1950s
Anything
Appeared
Blue
Could
First
Gulf
Harmed
Infinity
Large
Mexico
People
Sea
Too
Wild
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When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the 'National Geographic' covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people.
~ Sylvia Earle
About
Covers
Fish
Geographic
I Write
Might
Million
Million People
More
National
National Geographic
People
Plants
Project
Reach
Scientific
Technology
Than
Underwater
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Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart.
~ Sylvia Earle
Advocate
Around
Beauty
Because
Blue
Conservation
Degradation
Divers
Even
Fragility
Heart
Ocean
Our
Personally
Planet
Scuba
Seen
Some
Spent
Strongest
Time
Why
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With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea.
~ Sylvia Earle
Atmosphere
Breath
Connected
Drink
Drop
Earth
Every
Live
Matter
Most
Oxygen
Sea
Take
Water
Where
You
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I cannot stand all the people who take themselves very seriously, who cannot just laugh at themselves.
~ Sydney Brenner
Cannot
Just
Laugh
People
Seriously
Stand
Take
Themselves
Very
Who
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I sometimes say I am the extinguished professor, because what I'd really like to be is the postdoc, to have that kind of thinking. I think one can get very set in his ways with titles like 'distinguished professor.'
~ Sydney Brenner
Am
Because
Distinguished
Get
His
I Am
I Think
Kind
Like
Professor
Really
Say
Set
Sometimes
Think
Thinking
Titles
Very
Ways
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I think peer review is hindering science. In fact, I think it has become a completely corrupt system. It's corrupt in many ways, in that scientists and academics have handed over to the editors of these journals the ability to make judgment on science and scientists.
~ Sydney Brenner
Ability
Academics
Become
Corrupt
Editors
Fact
Handed
I Think
In Fact
Journals
Judgment
Make
Many
Over
Peer
Review
Science
Scientists
System
Think
Ways
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People have always asked whether evolution is constantly driving onwards and upwards. Is there always going to be improvement? The answer is no: evolution is a progression of form and function, but it is not purposeful.
~ Sydney Brenner
Always
Answer
Asked
Constantly
Driving
Evolution
Form
Function
Going
Improvement
People
Progression
Purposeful
Upwards
Whether
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The art of doing science is doing the important things first.
~ Sydney Brenner
Art
Doing
First
Important
Important Things
Science
Things
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The most important thing today is for young people to take responsibility, to actually know how to formulate an idea and how to work on it. Not to buy into the so-called apprenticeship.
~ Sydney Brenner
Actually
Apprenticeship
Buy
Formulate
How
Idea
Important
Important Thing
Know
Most
Most Important Thing
People
Responsibility
So-Called
Take
The Most Important
Thing
Today
Work
Young
Young People
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The supporters now, the bureaucrats of science, do not wish to take any risks. So in order to get it supported, they want to know from the start that it will work.
~ Sydney Brenner
Any
Bureaucrats
Get
Know
Now
Order
Risks
Science
Start
Supported
Supporters
Take
Want
Will
Wish
Work
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The thing I'm most interested in is the nervous system. How do brains grow? How do genes build complicated nervous systems?
~ Sydney Brenner
Brains
Build
Complicated
Genes
Grow
How
Interested
Most
Nervous
Nervous System
System
Systems
Thing
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There's no exploration anymore, except in a very few places.
~ Sydney Brenner
Anymore
Except
Exploration
Few
Places
Very
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Today, the Americans have developed a new culture in science based on the slavery of graduate students. Now, graduate students of American institutions are afraid... He's got to perform. The post-doc is an indentured labourer.
~ Sydney Brenner
Afraid
American
American
Based
Culture
Developed
Got
Graduate
Graduate Students
He
Institutions
New
Now
Perform
Science
Slavery
Students
Today
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Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.
~ Youssef Ziedan
Been
Being
Has-Been
Human
Human Being
Isolated
Part
Real
Real Human
Religious
Structures
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I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness.
~ Youssef Ziedan
Analyze
Consciousness
Knowledge
Religious
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Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
~ Youssef Ziedan
Against
Because
Dream
Goes
Human
Human Nature
Nature
Never
Provides
Realized
Religion
Us
Which
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I am still not a fussy eater, although I do enjoy good food.
~ Yves Chauvin
Although
Am
Eater
Enjoy
Food
Fussy
Good
Good Food
I Am
Still
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