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May 2014's selection of notable quotes

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—Neurosurgeon and former NASA researcher Mark Wilson, speaking about the future of emergency medicine on the Imagine the Future of Medicine blog (March 28)

—From a letter to The Guardian titled “We need more scientific mavericks,” signed by 30 scientists, including three Nobel laureates (March 18)

Charles Moore, environmental advocate credited with bringing attention to an ocean gyre between Hawaii and California known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, talking to reporters about marine garbage vortices
thwarting efforts to locate missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 (April 1)

—Primatologist and author Jane Goodall, speaking with the online science publication Mosaic about the year-old allegations that she plagiarized several websites, including Wikipedia, in her latest book, Seeds of Hope (April 1)

Vicente Barros, cochair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change working group that released the latest UN-sanctioned assessment of global climate change, in a press release accompanying the report (March 31)

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