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

• Moonlight is sculpture.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Sculpture
  • Moonlight

• 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

• I joined the Royal Ballet School when I was 13. Before then, I'd done ballet twice a week after school. The rest of my class had started aged 11, so I'd missed two years and was really far behind.

  

  Darcey Bussell
  • School
  • Done
  • Rest

• We don't forget, and won't forget.

  

  Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
  • Forget

• Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Lies

• I don't have a problem with my body. I'm not just going to strip off all my clothing, but if the part calls for it and I don't think there's any way round, I'm absolutely fine.

  

  Keira Knightley

• Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Mind
  • Sometimes
  • Angel

• 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