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May 2013's selection of notable quotes


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—Naturalist Charles Darwin, in a letter to friend and colleague Joseph Hooker, one of many pieces of correspondence between the two biologists that were recently made available online for the first time (January 11, 1844)

Debra Stewart, president of the Council of Graduate Schools, discussing the effects of sequestration on enrollment in US graduate schools (April 3)

Terrence Sejnowski, neuroscientist at the
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, on the recently announced Brain Research
through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative,
to which $100 million is devoted in President Barack Obama’s 2014
budget proposal (April 2)

—Yale University geneticist Francis Ruddle, who produced the first transgenic mouse using viral DNA in 1980 and died on March 10, as quoted in his New York Times obituary (March 20)

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