Michael Behe Quotes

In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines.

Michael Behe

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• I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Loved
  • Structure
  • Shape

• But getting your party structure right may also be a precondition for getting your policies right.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • May
  • Party
  • Structure

• Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Love
  • Enough
  • Structure

• The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Islam
  • Structure

• I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or anything that could be understood as anthropomorphic. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of 'humility.' This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thinking
  • Nature
  • Purpose

• Get on up, stay on the scene, get on up, like a sex machine.

  

  James Brown
  • Up
  • Sex
  • Expression

• Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition. It compels wide tolerance not only for their expression but also for the organization of people and forces to bring about the acceptance of the dissenter's claim....We have alternatives to violence.

  

  Abe Fortas
  • People
  • Great
  • Society

• It is the stress that holds the structure up.

  

  P. K. Page
  • Up
  • Stress
  • Structure

• A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of mountains, valleys, oceans, and so forth. Its warped space whirls around the central singularity like air in a tornado.

  

  Kip Thorne
  • Black
  • Earth
  • Space

• For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines - some of which, alas, you can see also in this Siege - I construct Aristotelian Machines, that allow anyone to see with Words.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Mind
  • Today

• Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Country
  • Power
  • Wonder

• We're just recycled history machines, cavemen in faded blue jeans.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • History
  • Blue
  • Machines

• A great way to get all the right nutrients is to make a colorful plate - mix of good vegetables, carbohydrates, and protein. If you notice all your vegetables are green, change it up and add another color for a variety of benefits in one meal.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work.

  

  Taiichi Ohno
  • Work
  • Moving
  • Risk

• The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Freedom
  • Ideas
  • Car

• I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Iron
  • Foods
  • Protein

• I see things in the middle of the night. I draw them on paper and I don't even think about it. I'm like a machine in a way - just made of some electronic stuff. Vaguely digital.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Thinking
  • Night
  • Machines

• Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?

  

  Hippocrates
  • Brain
  • Structure
  • Foretold

• I really loved the idea of playing opposite Marlon Brando and being the crazy one.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Idea
  • Opposite
  • Marlon Brando

• And in her Eleanor Roosevelt letters, she writes the most, you know, fanciful letters: when we are together, and when we are reunited, and you know, I will be your surrogate wife. Of course she doesn't use that word, but I will be the mother to my brothers, and I will be your primary love.

  

  Blanche Wiesen Cook
  • Love
  • Wife
  • Letters

• Every stroke a tennis player plays is different, yet we perceive them as playing in a distinctive and unique way. It's what Heidegger called a certain 'how' of existing. It's ultimately always singular, and the double task of (a) getting it in view and (b) communicating it to others will inevitably be marked more often by failure than success!

  

  George Pattison
  • Failure
  • Tennis
  • Perceive

• We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You got to wonder why we cling to our expectations, because the expected is just what keeps us steady. Standing. Still. The expected's just the beginning, the unexpected is what changes our lives.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder
  • Expectations

• Democrats denounce and abuse white people, and Republicans act embarrassed about having whites vote for them.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • People
  • Abuse

• In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines.

  

  Michael Behe
  • Machines
  • Structure
  • Protein