Eric Betzig Quotes

In essence, we're imaging the same cell for anywhere from forty to a hundred thousand times to create one of the movies that we see.

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• I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Competition

• I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Best
  • Dance
  • Born

• I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Book
  • Write
  • Fans

• The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Work
  • Home
  • Revolution

• Every school should have well-rehearsed emergency response protocols covering a variety of possible scenarios, from fire to armed intruders. Schools should have good lines of communications with local emergency response officials and practice those relationships in drills and special exercises.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Good
  • School
  • Practice

• It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Bad
  • Trust
  • Language

• I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Know
  • Any
  • Manchester

• I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Jesus
  • Years
  • Old

• Cabinet governments educate the nation; the presidential does not educate it, and may corrupt it.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • May
  • Presidential

• I knew as well as anyone that the priests taught what they wanted us to know, not necessarily what was true. And sometimes even when they told the truth, they got it wrong.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Truth
  • True

• One of the limits of reality Presents itself in Oley when the hay, Baked through long days, is piled in mows. It is A land too ripe for enigmas, too serene.… Things stop in that direction and since they stop The direction stops and we accept what is As good. The utmost must be good and is…

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Good
  • Long
  • Reality

• Creation sleeps! 'Tis as the general pulseOf life stood still, and Nature made a pause;An awful pause! prophetic of her end.

  

  Edward Young
  • Life
  • Nature

• 'You have been to the Riviera before, Georges?' said Poirot to his valet the following morning. George was an intensely English, rather wooden-faced individual. 'Yes, sir. I was here two years ago when I was in the service of Lord Edward Frampton.' 'And to-day,' murmured his master, 'you are here with Hercule Poirot. How one mounts in the world!'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • World
  • Morning
  • English

• He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.

  

  Edward Coke

• The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • May
  • Nature
  • Society

• If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly.

  

  David Suzuki
  • People
  • Live
  • Hope

• It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy.

  

  Marian Burros
  • Done
  • May
  • Library

• It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?

  

  Bud Abbott
  • Home
  • Guy

• Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Leadership
  • Discipline
  • Management

• At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from 'the bush' could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

  

  Elizabeth Kenny
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Nurse

• The computer can do a much better job than the human eye, as it is much more systematic in analysing tissues.

  

  Frans van Houten
  • Job

• Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores.

  

  Geoffrey Madan
  • Missing
  • University
  • Materials

• I'm never just on the couch. Being busy is part of who I am. But it's hard juggling my family, my husband, balancing that time.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • Time
  • Family
  • Husband

• In essence, we're imaging the same cell for anywhere from forty to a hundred thousand times to create one of the movies that we see.

  

  Eric Betzig