Martin Chalfie Quotes
For a decade, I had been studying a transparent worm, the C. elegans. I immediately thought, if you could put the G.F.P. gene into C. elegans, you'd then be able to see biological processes in live animals. Until then, we had to kill them and prepare their tissues chemically to visualize proteins or active genes within cells.
Quotes to Explore
-
Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
-
I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
-
You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
-
We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
-
The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
-
Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
-
When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
-
I've been fighting amidst a lot of opposition from both Hillary Clinton as well as some Republicans who wanted to send arms to the allies of ISIS. ISIS rides around in a billion dollars worth of U.S. Humvees. It's a disgrace. We've got to stop - we shouldn't fund our enemies, for goodness sakes.
-
One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
-
Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
-
Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
-
You want to be smart. You don't want to put yourself in a position where you can't be there for the team when it comes down to the end.
-
I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
-
I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am.
-
From my experience of shooting 'Tudors' on the island of Ireland, you cannot predict the weather.
-
Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.
-
'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
-
The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open market.
-
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
-
I think it's very hard for a woman to be treated as a person and not just as a woman who tries to become a politician.
-
Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.
-
You sang far better than you knew; the songsThat for your listeners’ hungry hearts sufficedStill live,-but more than this to you belongs:You sang a race from wood and stone to Christ.
-
You cannot truly say you live well unless you eat well.
-
For a decade, I had been studying a transparent worm, the C. elegans. I immediately thought, if you could put the G.F.P. gene into C. elegans, you'd then be able to see biological processes in live animals. Until then, we had to kill them and prepare their tissues chemically to visualize proteins or active genes within cells.
