You can't just hoard your ideas inside the ivory tower. You have to get them out into the world.
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It's all too easy to dismiss the future. People confuse what's impossible today with what's impossible tomorrow.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The future is often underestimated, and people wrongly believe that current impossibilities will always be so.
George M. Church emphasizes the tendency of individuals to overlook the potential of the future by equating current limitations with permanent barriers. This mindset can prevent innovations and advancements that may one day become achievable, highlighting the importance of keeping an open mind about what is possible in times to come.
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FuturePossibilityImpossibleInnovationTime
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Example use cases
During a motivational speech about embracing change.
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We have a love affair with the idea of the 'natural,' even though we, as a species, are about as unnatural as you can imagine.
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At some point, someone will come up with an airtight argument as to why they should have a cloned child. At that point, cloning will be acceptable.
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Most people are excited about themselves. Personal genome will deliver for inexpensively something about science to which you can relate. Just like computers are becoming something to which you can relate. It should be even easier to relate to your own biology, and I hope that will be one of the ways we get broader literacy in science.
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Every cell in our body, whether it's a bacterial cell or a human cell, has a genome. You can extract that genome - it's kind of like a linear tape - and you can read it by a variety of methods. Similarly, like a string of letters that you can read, you can also change it. You can write, you can edit it, and then you can put it back in the cell.
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