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You can't teach biology with a bottle containing dead animals and organisms.

— Roman Vishniac

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Nature, God, or whatever you want to call the creator of the universe comes through the microscope clearly and strongly

Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world which might cease to exist.

The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental process that starts with the photographer's thinking about the subject he photographs and is continued in the mind of the spectator.

Concentration camp money... It was a German sadism that invented it. Can you do anything with it? Yes, you can cry.

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