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March 2011's selection of notable quotes

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Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species (1859)

Russell Gray of the University of Aukland, as quoted by Natalie Angier in “Nurturing Nests Lift These Birds to a Higher Perch” (New York Times, Jan. 31, 2011)

Antonio Regalado writing about a poll conducted by Mexico’s National Council on Science and Technology and the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (ScienceInsider, Jan. 5, 2011)

—Genomicist J. Craig Venter, writing in Science on the 10th anniversary of the first peer-reviewed reports describing the sequencing of the human genome (Feb. 4, 2011)

Steven Goodman of Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Medicine, in a New York Times interview based on his article in Annals of Internal Medicine (154:50-55, 2011)

Bruce Alberts, editor-in-chief, Science magazine, in an editorial, “Is the Frontier Really Endless?” (Science, Dec. 17, 2010)

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