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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...the Indian public are weighed down by their problems, and becoming rather insular in their outlook because of their preoccupation with their own problems. We have to rouse them and make them conscious that we can progress only as a part of the world and as a part of Asia.
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I don't really like saying "the gays"... I'm not sure why. I suppose I say "the Jews." but I don't say "the blacks." I guess because I'm a Jew for all intents and purposes and to group people together of which I am not one in such a casual way feels disrespectful.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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When I see something that's wrong, I just speak and act first and I'll take the consequences later.
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One of our great strength, world capitalism, is the most successful economic system possible, but has also become one of shorter and shorter cycles of evaluation. CEOs, companies, stocks, profits and debits change at an ever more accelerated pace in response to the demands of stockholders and the market. We have already experienced some consequences of the shortening cycle of decision making in business, but those are minor in relation to the grand systemic collapse that always eventually results from such accelerating and shortening periods for leadership goals.
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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.
