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.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Great
  • Want
  • Career

• 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.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Experience
  • Responsibility

• 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.

  

  Sam Reed
  • Done
  • Experience
  • Wife

• The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Knowledge
  • Record
  • Roulette

• Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Smoking
  • Cigarette
  • Hazards

• I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • People
  • Children
  • Help

• Life is that which must overcome itself again and again.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life is
  • Overcome
  • Again And Again

• 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.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Great
  • Want
  • Looks

• Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Mischief
  • Malice
  • Misunderstandings

• In the course of history no people have ever been given freedom like a present, and if freedom did not cost anything than no people would ever keep it! Freedom has a high price, and men must ever struggle to preserve it.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • History
  • Freedom
  • Price

• You either hear the story and you're curious, and you're sort of sympathetic, or you think, "Ugh, how horrible." That's dehumanizing. How about we take that and turn Christine Chubbuck into a person and it's not about the final act, it's about her life. I felt that really strongly, and I felt a sort of deep sympathy with her. It's also why I do what I do. I want to try to make difficult people somehow relatable.

  

  Rebecca Hall
  • Life
  • Story
  • Sympathy

• The U.S. government is gradually homing in on the more important chat forums and websites. The problem is, by now, many of these sites have gone underground, in some cases, changing their names and domains, adding logins and passwords, and locking out anyone who doesn't speak Arabic. Government bureaucracies are simply not agile or adept enough to keep up with this constantly evolving challenge.

  

  Evan Kohlmann
  • Important
  • Problem
  • Enough

• Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.

  

  Sidney Altman
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