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“What’s happening now is a powerful countervailing force where people are saying, ‘Stop the world, I want to get off it. I want to return to previous certainties,’” —Mark Leonard, who studies European policy, on Brexit.

“So it is almost certain unless something dramatic changes, 25 percent of Puerto Rico is going to get Zika,” —Anthony Fauci, an immunologist.

“A reason you see all the time, but virtually nobody mentions when they’re defending the legality of assault weapons after a mass shooting, is that they’re a whole lot of fun to shoot,” —Robert Spitzer, a political science professor.

“It’s difficult to see nations sort themselves out before your very eyes, and it points to troubled times ahead,” —an Atlantic reader, on Britain’s future.

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“This all begins to look and feel a little but like martial law,” —Christine Link, who advocates for civil liberties, on city restrictions against protesters.

“A bonanza for archaeology,” —what Jesse Casana, an archaeologist, calls Cold War-era spy satellite photos.

“It’s gotten to the point where some parents have said, ‘I’m not sending my kids to school because that’s where they get killed,’” —Ronald Holle, a meteorologist, on lightning strikes that hit African schools.

“Disruption politics are the future, be they from right or left,”—an Atlantic reader, on the House Democrats’ sit-in for stricter gun laws.

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“I would only worry deeply if I was a mollusk,” —Stephen Goff, who studies a contagious cancer found in shellfish.

“Time is your way of connecting to the universe. … Plus, people’s interest in time goes way up when they have a plane to catch,” —Demetrios Matsakis, who runs the U.S. Naval Observatory’s time-by-phone service.

“I’m the ultimate perfectionist. When I don’t win, it’s my fault, because I have that opportunity. I have that talent,” —Serena Williams, a champion tennis player.

“Let’s dispel with this fiction that Marco Rubio can be authentic,” —an Atlantic reader, on Rubio’s chance at an authentic presidential campaign.

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“Migration is the engine of the whole goddamned system,” —Arthur Middleton, an ecologist, on how elk affect the ecosystem in Yellowstone National Park.

“Military guys, police, ambulances were going up and down the street like chickens without heads,” —Malcolm Albert, who lives in Sierra Leone, on life during the Ebola outbreak.

“An argument that doesn’t really work very well is to sound like some kind of crazy American talking about the First Amendment. They just don’t care,” —Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, on pitching the site to Chinese authorities.

“We, as a republic, seem to have decided that since we cannot have leadership, we shall simply have entertainment,” —an Atlantic reader on how American politics went insane.

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“When kids are born, they’re already little scientists exploring the world,” —Estela Renner, director of a new film about babies’ development.

“The mechanism is like the consistency of pastry, like filo dough,” —Brendan Foley, a marine archaeologist, on a machine from 200 B.C.

“You don’t just want the bad guy to get it, you want the bad guy to get it so he hurts,” —David Edelstein, a film critic, on how justice works in movies

“The waste of resources is immense, not even accounting for the time … we could rather spend as productive members of society instead of as rats navigating the healthcare maze,” —an Atlantic reader on the difficulty of getting health insurance for a newborn.

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“Cold equals okay, warming equals death,” —Alan Cooper, who studies evolution, on how climate change affected ancient animals.

“Colors are brighter. The walls might be waving. There might be a halo around things,” —Matthew Johnson, a psychiatry professor, on the effects of hallucinogenic mushrooms.

“For what they pay me, they can get two people out of grad school,” —Roger Copeland, a tenured professor who accepted a retirement buyout.

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“Lawmakers pay attention to two things: votes and money,” —Howard Rheingold, who studies modern communications.

“My worry for America is that we have states that are holding our cities back,” —Jennifer Roberts, the mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina.

“It’s really not a question of who’s willing to participate. It’s who’s being asked,” —Jill Fisher, a medical sociologist, on the lack of diversity in clinical trials.

“A nostalgic view of the days when appearance and family background were held in higher regard than intelligence? That’s a bit backward,”—an Atlantic reader on “the war on stupid people.”

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“I asked 30 reef scientists to give me their life’s work, and if you’ve ever met a scientist, you know that can be like pulling teeth. But my dad’s a dentist, so I’m okay with that,” —Joshua Cinner, who studies how humans affect coral reefs.

“My task is not to teach my students to read—I don’t have time—so that’s not what we’re doing. I don’t care that he can’t read. Today … I’m showing them how to set up their checking accounts,” —Jamin Hollingsworth, who teaches at a vocational school for students with disabilities.

“What we’re doing is making driver’s licensing about whether you can pay a fine based on middle-class incomes, not because of how well you drive,” —Nichole Yunk-Todd on license suspensions in Wisconsin.

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BC Place Stadium under construction in Vancouver, British Columbia, on January 19, 2011. Andy Clark / Reuters

“The old model of a walled fortress stadium surrounded by a moat of parking lots, and having that be publicly subsidized, was always crazy,” —Victor Matheson, an economics professor.

“The social worker in me wants to accept and understand their culture. But the teen parent in me feels it’s not fair to omit information because of their values,” —Abril Vazquez, who teaches sex education in Texas, on abstinence-only education.

“People don’t say, ‘How can you be gay? You’re white,’” —Sahar Shafqat, who leads an organization that supports and connects LGBTQ Muslims.

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“I am getting I-told-you-so delivered to my house by the truckload every day. I am eating up the I-told-you-so like a fat kid eats cake,” —Rick Wilson, a Republican consultant, on his prediction that Donald Trump will continue to make offensive statements.

“How many people get really excited to go out and buy Tide detergent? But when Tide detergent is a sponsor on my favorite driver’s car, then that's the only thing I buy,” —Jim Kadlecek, a sports business professor, on why Nascar sponsorships are successful.

“Driving a million miles in Southern California? Big deal. … Let’s stick that thing in Boston for a year,” —Missy Cummings, a robotics professor, on testing Google’s self-driving cars.

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“What a shock it was for a New Yorker to walk into a company where everyone was dressed in Halloween costumes,” —Jayne Benjulian, a former speechwriter for Apple, on her first day at the tech company in October 1984.

“I think it would be extremely unlikely for the Sanders campaign to say, ‘Here, DNC, Hillary—here are all of my email addresses,’” —Amelia Showalter, who managed digital analytics for the Obama campaign.

“The way the interrogation process is set up in this country is that it’s designed not to get information from you, but to get a confession,” —Jim Trainum, a former Washington, D.C., police detective.

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“I don’t want to know what the emoji for circumcision looks like,” —Elizabeth Morrison, who curates historic manuscripts, on an emoji translation of the Bible.

“It’s like the old saying: ‘They might be a son of a bitch, but they’re our son of a bitch,’” —Julie Jackson, who supports Hillary Clinton, on the Democratic Party.

“Think of the value of a two-year prison sentence in terms of what this would communicate about our social norms. ... Instead, you’re sending the message that we basically don’t care,” —Michele Dauber, a law professor, on a six-month sentence for sexual assault.

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