Speaking of Science

October 2012's selection of notable quotes

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—President Barack Obama, in response to one of 14 questions posed by sciencedebate.org to him and Mitt Romney (Sept. 4, 2012)


—US Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, in response to one of 14 questions posed by sciencedebate.org to him and Barack Obama (Sept. 4, 2012)


—US astronaut Neil Armstrong, who died on August 25, reflecting 40 years later on the race that culminated with his being the first human foot to step onto the Moon (July 19, 2009)


—European Bioinformatics Institute’s Ewan Birney, lead analysis coordinator for the ENCODE project, describing its impact in a National Institutes of Health news bulletin on the day the data was published (Sept. 5, 2012)


—University of California, Berkeley, evolutionary biologist Michael Eisen, opining about “Big Science,” on his blog (Sept. 10, 2012)

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