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The total effect of the environmental crisis cannot be evaluated because it is spread throughout the whole social structure.
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Science is still the versatile, unpredictable hero of the play, creating endless new situations, opening romantic vistas and challenging accepted concepts.
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If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.
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Each cell, each living being has a multipotential biochemical personality but the physiochemical environment determines the one under which it manifests itself.
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Like other men, scientists become deaf and blind to any argument or evidence that does not fit into the thought pattern which circumstances have led them to follow.
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Eradication of microbial disease is a will-o'-the-wisp; pursuing it leads into a morass of hazy biological concepts and half truths.
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The general formula of [ecological] management for the future might be, think globally and act locally.
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Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.
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René Dubos
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Born:
February 20, 1901
Died:
February 20, 1982
(aged 81)
Bio:
René Jules Dubos was a French-born American microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist, humanist, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book So Human An Animal.
Known for:
So Human an Animal (1968)
A God within (1972)
Mirage of health (1959)
Man Adapting (1965)
Only one Earth (1972)
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