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.Sydney Brenner
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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.
Abraham Lincoln -
I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
Gail Porter -
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.
Ram Shriram -
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.
Edgar Wright -
Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
Ted Turner -
I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
Vijender Singh
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
Rachel Nichols -
My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
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.
Gabrielle Reece -
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.
Harrison Birtwistle -
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.
Victor Francis Hess -
I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
Dan Marino
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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.
Zeresenay Alemseged -
The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
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.
Fernando Pessoa -
Life is a thread that someone entangled.
Fernando Pessoa -
I'm not gay, and I'm not a transvestite.
Boy George Culture Club -
Writing is an addiction more powerful than alcohol, than nicotine, than crack. I could not conceive of not writing.
Isaac Asimov
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but the one thing we do know is that there is a dead 4-year-old, and we're looking for a black Explorer and three Hispanic males, one of them described as light-complected and wearing a white cowboy hat.
John Whiting -
One of the questions on which clarity of thinking is now most necessary is that of the relation between the methods of science and of Marxist philosophy. Although much has already been written on the subject, yet there is still an enormous amount of confusion and contradictory statement.
John Desmond Bernal -
It's all about the fungibility and money. If Planned Parenthood accesses hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money and they use that for other purposes, then they can use other dollars to fund abortion.
Eric Cantor -
Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.
Lennart Meri -
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.
Sydney Brenner