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  From whence then come cancer and the slow degeneration of age?...
• Remember, genes are NOT blueprints. This means you can't, for example, insert "the genes for an elephant's trunk" into a giraffe and get a giraffe with a trunk.
  There -are- no genes for trunks. What you CAN do with genes is chemistry, since DNA codes for chemicals....
• Have you ever wondered why clouds behave in such familiar ways when each specimen is so unique?
  Or why the energy exchange market is so unpredictable?...
• Time travel in the classic sense has no place in rational theory, but temporal distortion does exist on the quantum level, and more importantly it can be controlled.
  -- Academician Prokhor Zakharov "For I Have Tasted The Frui...
• Let the Gaians preach their silly religion, but one way or the other I shall see this compound burned
  eared, and sterilized until every hiding place is found and until every last Mind Worm egg, every last slimy one, has been cooked to a smoking husk....
• To map the very stuff of life; to look into the genetic mirror and watch a million generations march past.
  That, friends, is both our curse and our proudest achievement....
• The first living thing to go through the device was a small white rat.
  I still have him, in fact. As you can see, the damage was not so great as they say....
• What actually transpires beneath the veil of an event horizon?
  Decent people shouldn't think too much about that....
• In one moment, Earth; in the next, Heaven.
  -- Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "For I Have Tasted The Frui...