If you get very fine, accurate, and inexpensive control over your genome, you can fundamentally change the kind of organism you are. You are extending human capacity. – George M. Church
The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution. – Daniel D. Palmer
My grandmother has dementia, and my mother is looking after her as her primary caregiver. Seeing their relationship has had a profound impact, seeing how tough it is for both of them and seeing how the roles change and how my mother has gone from being a daughter to being the mother. – Felicity Jones
Everything must change and you do what you can with the changes that are made. You can’t stop it. You can’t fight it. Everybody tries to go back to yesterday, but you can’t go back to yesterday. The only time there is, is now. – Marla Gibbs
If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships – that made me feel that we had to change this country. – George Papandreou
Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn’t matter. – P. J. O’Rourke
You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn’t play that way. It’s about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it. – Gael Garcia Bernal
I love clothes and do sort of change my wardrobe a lot. But a thousand dollar jacket? I’d rather spend it on an experience, like traveling. – Douglas Booth
What are the Democrats, the party of Jim Matheson, telling them? The message of the Democrats is that the Amercian dream is over. ‘The government is all you have. Give up your dreams, and the government will save you, the government will heal you, the government will be your hope and change.’ We know here in Utah, none of that is true. – Mia Love
One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters. – Nancy Kerrigan
Anything that could give rise to smarter-than-human intelligence – in the form of Artificial Intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, or neuroscience-based human intelligence enhancement – wins hands down beyond contest as doing the most to change the world. Nothing else is even in the same league. – Eliezer Yudkowsky
How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment – climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil. – Marion Nestle
I don’t like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can’t really ask for more than. – Mark Knopfler
Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation – to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge. – Frances Beinecke
Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the ’50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future. – Gary Ross
Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the fact that humans share ancestry with apes are a few examples. Another is climate change. – Michael Specter
We should change the current economic system dominated by big business groups to a one where small and medium-sized enterprises develop together. – Park Geun-hye
A social entrepreneur finds market-based solutions for change. Because without a market-based solution, without a sustainable solution, you go nowhere. – Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
It appears that PepsiCo views structural change as a sign of weakness, an admission of failure, and an untenable break with past traditions. – Nelson Peltz
Philanthropy and social change work are at their best when they are driven by your values and connected to what you care about most. – Charles Bronfman
The Model Sanctuary is not about self-indulgence – it’s about reminding and allowing them to become self-sufficient human beings. I wanted to alert people to the fact that we’re not the victims, but nor are we the villains. We want fair practice and positive, sustainable change, working with the fashion industry, not against it. – Erin O’Connor
Jumping genes are fundamental because they’re agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and in motion. A familiar example is the stripe-y corn – called Indian corn – that you buy in the fall. – Nina Fedoroff
The Keystone XL pipeline is a threat to our nation. It would increase pollution and intensify climate change for generations to come. We must raise our voices and demand our leaders reject this dirty scheme. – Frances Beinecke
I’m at one with Ed Miliband in saying that it’s important that people have the right to express their democratic voices and also their deep concerns about climate change because we have a planet in peril. – Douglas Alexander
If you change the rules of the market, you can be more successful than your competitors. – Max McKeown