Ada Yonath Quotes
I wanted to reveal how genetic code is translated into protein. I knew a great application could be for antibiotics, since half of the useful ones target the ribosomes, but I didn't believe I could contribute to it. It was like the next Mount Everest to conquer. It was my dream to contribute something to humanity.
Quotes to Explore
-
For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
-
If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
-
I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
-
Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
-
You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
-
Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
-
I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
-
By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
-
I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
-
I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
-
We may define therapy as a search for value.
-
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
-
High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.
-
I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.
-
It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
-
I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.'
-
Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth.
-
Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.
-
Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.
-
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
-
'The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for - for what? Someday we'll know.'
-
The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.
-
That's what's wrong with the people in this world; they believe they can do well by just getting by when they need to aim for the highest.
-
I wanted to reveal how genetic code is translated into protein. I knew a great application could be for antibiotics, since half of the useful ones target the ribosomes, but I didn't believe I could contribute to it. It was like the next Mount Everest to conquer. It was my dream to contribute something to humanity.
