Sam Kean Quotes
Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're looking at with these genetic tests, it's not like you're condemned to automatically get the disease or the syndrome. There's a lot of factors in play there.Sam Kean
Quotes to Explore
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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
Walter Lippmann -
As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
Kate Voegele -
I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.
Jackson Browne -
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
Walter Isaacson -
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
J. G. Stedman
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Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.
Earl Butz -
When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
Larry David -
I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr. -
I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
Carl Wilson -
Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
Raf Simons
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Edmund Burke -
I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
M. J. Rose -
I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
Rachel Sklar -
Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.
Barry Silbert -
Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.
Olly Murs -
But I knew that what had happened was an eye-opener not only to the United States but also to Pakistan, who realized that after what has happened on the 11th of September, it was simply impossible to continue to play those games in Afghanistan.
Lakhdar Brahimi
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A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Kenneth Tynan -
For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.
Rachel Carson -
I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person.
Jean Dujardin -
The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
Oscar Wilde -
Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.
Haile Selassie -
Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're looking at with these genetic tests, it's not like you're condemned to automatically get the disease or the syndrome. There's a lot of factors in play there.
Sam Kean