Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Quotes
In mathematics and science, there is no difference in the intelligence of men and women. The difference in genes between men and women is simply the Y chromosome, which has nothing to do with intelligence.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
-
There may be an evolutionary advantage for schizophrenia genes during famine.
-
Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
-
We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.
-
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
-
Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And we're trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and making new drugs.
-
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
-
If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.
-
History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.
-
In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group of people and generally spit in their direction.
-
So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important. It's the difference between success and failure.
-
Nutrition trumps genes.
-
We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.
-
Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.
-
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
-
The foolish idea that my music can actually make a difference in someone's life - that right there is proof that it's working. It makes me feel great, it really does.
-
But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted.
-
I've come to realize that the difference in success or failure is not how you look, how you dress, or how you're educated. It's how you think !
-
As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a clear conscience.
-
How much golf I actually play depends on whom you ask. My wife says I'm out there every day. If you ask me, the cricket is getting in the way of the golf.
-
It is God who creates, effects, and preserves all things through his almighty.
-
The only difference between the narrator of contemporary affairs and the ordinary historian is that moral judgments about the present provoke fiercer reactions and have more immediately practical implications than moral judgments about the past.
-
You don't see what you're seeing until you see it but when you do see it, it lets you see many other things.
-
In mathematics and science, there is no difference in the intelligence of men and women. The difference in genes between men and women is simply the Y chromosome, which has nothing to do with intelligence.
