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
  • Malice
  • Mischief
  • Misunderstandings

• The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Rule
  • Exist
  • Phenomenon

• Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Soul
  • Phenomenon
  • Symbol

• There is no natural phenomenon that is comparable with the sudden and apparently accidentally timed development of science, except perhaps the condensation of a super-saturated gas or the explosion of some unpredictable explosives.

  

  Eugene Wigner
  • Science
  • Development
  • Phenomenon

• 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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