Sydney Brenner Quotes
The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology we had found intractable - it was the birth of molecular biology.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
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One of the books I remember reading when I was young and always thought would be a great role to play is Catherine in 'Wuthering Heights.' I like the classics.
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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They were most correct, according to their god.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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'Father, forgive them,' said Jesus, 'for they know not what they do' - People of good sense whoever you may be, I will add, do not listen to them, for they know not what they say.
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Non vi vieto per questo (ch'avrei torto)Che vi lasciate amar; che senza amanteSareste come inculta vite in orto,Che non ha palo ove s'appoggi o piante.
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A lot of our music came out of a lot of weird psychology and weird emotions. When you play the whole body of work, you get tossed all over the place. It's not easy listening. It's not even comfortable to listen to.
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I used to panic and get rattled when I was young, but as I've got older, I've started literally to live day to day. With age, you work out what matters.
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I think I have good judgment.
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The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.
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A boatload of government money is indeed a gift. Unless, I suppose, you're one of the saps paying for the cargo.
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Traditional consumer banking will come under extreme pressure as its central deposit-taking and lending functions are challenged by online savings vehicles, crowdfunding, and loan syndicating by such nontraditional competitors as insurance companies, pension and hedge funds.
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I adore pigs, and I love eating them and cooking them, and I love using the whole animal.
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The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.
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My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.
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I think we were naive during the first two years of the [Barack] Obama Administration because the Republicans didn't fight us on this point during the 2008 Presidential Election. Obama and McCain both ran on a clean energy platform. But now, uncontested lies have eroded hard-won public understanding. So, we have to go back and make the case again.
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It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street.
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The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology we had found intractable - it was the birth of molecular biology.
