Siddhartha Mukherjee said this quote

“ Scientists divide. We discriminate. It is the inevitable occupational hazard of our profession that we must break the world into its constituent parts -- genes, atoms, bytes -- before making it whole again. We know of no other mechanism to understand the world: to create the sum of its parts, we must begin by dividing it into the parts of the sum. ”

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If we define beauty as having blue eyes (and only blue eyes), then we will, indeed, find a gene for beauty. If we define intelligence as the performance on only one kind of test, then we will, indeed, find a gene for intelligence. The genome is only a mirror for the breadth or narrowness of human imagination.

~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

History repeats, but science reverberates.

~ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Without equality, he argued, eugenics would degenerate into yet another mechanism by which the powerful could control the weak.

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Intelligence...[is] not marathon rac[e]: there is no fixed criteria for success, no start or finish lines -- and running sideways or backwards, might secure victory.

~ Siddhartha Mukherjee