Frederick Sanger Quotes
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Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.
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If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's not really a big deal.
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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
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Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.
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Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
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We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecting our life support systems here on Earth.
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The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.
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I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
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The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.
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I used to play football at school, and I enjoyed really physical sports, but I now try to avoid any sports that might build up different muscles. That might have a negative impact on my archery.
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In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.
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Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.
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The only thing that I could think of to do was to be an actress.
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As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.
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Brad Pitt has something about him to where he's played different characters in all his movies, and every single time after he's done, I want to be him.
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Pomegranate molasses is ubiquitous in Arabic cooking: it's sweet, sour and adds depth.
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People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.
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I believe the doctor of the future will be a teacher as well as a physician. His real job will be to teach people how to be healthy.
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All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.
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You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.
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I think the best songs that come to me are ones that you sort of listen for. The ones - when I listen to some of my old stuff, I can tell when I had a good idea, but I forced it through, and I can hear myself - the bit that I've written, which sounds clunkier than the stuff that just sort of comes.
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Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.
