Sydney Brenner Quotes
I think peer review is hindering science. In fact, I think it has become a completely corrupt system. It's corrupt in many ways, in that scientists and academics have handed over to the editors of these journals the ability to make judgment on science and scientists.
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
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Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
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The big difference between the radio show and the TV work is that I don't have to work by committee on the radio show. I'm the DJ; I can play what I want and suffer or get praised by that. With a TV show, it's much more of a collaboration, and the song that I might think is perfect may get shot down and vice versa.
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My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.
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The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
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We never love someone. We just love the idea we have of someone. It's a concept of ours - summing up, ourselves - that we love.
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Life is a thread that someone entangled.
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All intense interest in luxury is a mark of inner poverty. The less grace there is in the soul, the more ornament must be on the body.
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Young people: I understand this is important to you, but as you be thinking about climate change, the economy and jobs, war and peace, maybe way at the bottom you should be thinking about marijuana.
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However long the song is was how long it took us to write it.
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Earth has few secrets from the birds.
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I was a TV junkie as a kid. I am the Sesame Street generation.
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I think peer review is hindering science. In fact, I think it has become a completely corrupt system. It's corrupt in many ways, in that scientists and academics have handed over to the editors of these journals the ability to make judgment on science and scientists.
