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August 2015's selection of notable quotes

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HOLY HELL: Pope Francis has offered the strongest warning yet from the Vatican concerning climate change.© ISTOCK.COM/JIMMYJAMESBOND

Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic Church, in a recent papal encyclical letter (June 18)

—GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida, commenting on Pope Francis's encyclical warning of the real threat of climate change just prior to its official release (June 17)

—Representative Diana DeGette (D-CO), architect of the "21st Century Cures" bill, which would increase NIH funding , quoting NIH Director Francis Collins (The New York Times, July 10)

Leonard Freedman of the Global Biological Standards Institute in Washington, DC, and coauthors, in a recently published PLOS Biology essay (June 9)

—Nobel Laureate Tim Hunt, speaking at a conference in South Korea. The biochemist resigned from posts at University College London, The Royal Society, and the European Research Council after ...

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