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—Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner, quoted in A Passion for Science (1988)

Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, in testimony delivered before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education, and Related Agencies regarding the FY 2018 NIH budget (June 22)

—Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education, and Related Agencies (June 22)

—Technology magnate Bill Gates, in a review of Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari (Gates Notes, May 22)

—Energy Secretary Rick Perry, on CNBC’s Squawk Box talking about skepticism concerning the degree to which human have contributed climate change (June 19)

—Magdalena Janecka, postdoctoral fellow at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, who recently coauthored a study that found older fathers are more likely ...

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