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.
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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.
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There may be an evolutionary advantage for schizophrenia genes during famine.
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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.
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We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
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I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at me and sneered, 'What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?'
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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.
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The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
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If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.
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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.
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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.
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I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.
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So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important. It's the difference between success and failure.
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Nutrition trumps genes.
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We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.
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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.
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Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
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We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
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It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
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Mumford & Sons' music appeals to a lot of America. I'm really proud of them.
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In India, as we saw, the Sepoy Mutiny led to a vast reorganization of British colonialism in the area, sending out a viceroy from London and before too long, Queen Victoria was proclaimed “Empress of India,” with this great empire, ruling over maharajahs and other local potentates.
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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.
