Sam Kean Quotes
Mutations can arise anywhere in the genome, in gene DNA and noncoding DNA alike. But mutations to genes have bigger consequences: They can disable proteins and kill a creature.
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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I have had many anxieties for our commonwealth, principally occasioned by the depreciation of our money.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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Every second I have spare, I'm with my kids.
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I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.
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As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like, 'No.' You know, the label was tough for me. I'm a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other.
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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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My parents have always been very open.
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I don't have contempt for Tiger Woods.
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The military people don't like it; the government probably doesn't like it, but the people should know what they're sending their young people into when they permit their governments to declare war and engage in war.
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I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
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If you buy the Chromebook Plus and intend to use it mainly as a Chromebook, I expect you'll have a good experience. But if you plan to rely heavily on Android apps, you're basically buying into the start of a journey, replete with odd-looking presentations of familiar apps, bugs and crashes.
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I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.
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Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry.
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Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.
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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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I love the game of football. I've been playing since I was 6 years old, and now that I am retired and not really into it physically, it's all about the mental part of it now. It's just coaching and teaching the game.
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I got my career start by first creating my own free, independent lifestyle in my own house out in the country. There I taught myself to make and later design furniture. I have continued to go my own way, always consciously needing to feel that I am moving forward.
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I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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Mutations can arise anywhere in the genome, in gene DNA and noncoding DNA alike. But mutations to genes have bigger consequences: They can disable proteins and kill a creature.
