Speaking of Science

January 2012's selection of notable quotes


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—Biologist Paul Ehrlich, speaking with Stanford University News about the revelation that Earth’s seven-billionth citizen was born in late October (Oct. 26, 2011)

—Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory computational biologist Michael Schatz, as quoted in the New York Times article, “A Genome Deluge” (Dec. 1, 2011)

John Terborgh in a review of Tim Flannery’s book Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet (NY Review of Books, Oct. 13, 2011)

Mary Lasker, philanthropist and advocate for medical research

Ted Kaptchuk, Harvard Medical School placebo researcher, as quoted by Michael Specter in “The Power of Nothing” (The New Yorker, Dec. 12, 2011)

—Conservation writer Caroline Fraser, in Yale University’s online publication, Environment 360 (Sep. 15, 2011)

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