Sidney Altman Quotes
Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.
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I had great stats in my career, you know, but really, you want to win.
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We should reserve the notion of 'morality' for the ways in which we can affect one another's experience for better or worse. Some people use the term 'morality' differently, of course, but I think we have a scientific responsibility to focus the conversation so as to make it most useful.
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I just feel abstinence is the right thing to do. You don't want to ruin the experience of first sex with your wife, by comparing it to what you've done before.
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The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.
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Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.
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I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help.
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Life is that which must overcome itself again and again.
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Everybody says I can't act. They said the same thing about Elizabeth Taylor. And they were wrong. She was great in A Place in the Sun. I'll never get the right part, anything I really want. My looks are against me. They're too specific.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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I had this feeling everybody thought I was dead. I didn't quit. I did some films and theater in London. I went to New York. But I had been on television so much, people thought [if I wasn't on television] I wasn't around.
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I'm fascinated by mankind. I grew up watching 'Candid Camera' and thought it was funnier than any standup, any joke, anything that could possibly be written because you're dealing with humanity. And people can relate to that. It touches everybody who sees it. It hits a nerve.
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Culture is not a surface phenomenon, it is our very care.
