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“ Nothing is invented; nothing is extraneous. Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own [. . .] this is not a metaphor. Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves. ”

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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.

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History repeats, but science reverberates.

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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.

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