Douglas Wilson
Author
"If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else"
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Carbon
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Bill Gates
Business Magnate, Philanthropist
"Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system."
Saul Bellow
Novelist
"...is the carbon molecule lined with thought?"
Susan George
Political Activist
"I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol."
Freeman Dyson
Theoretical Physicist
"We simply don't know yet what's going to happen to the carbon in the atmosphere."
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