August Weismann Quotes

The nature of heredity is based upon the transmission of nuclear substance with a specific molecular constitution. This substance is the specific nucleoplasm of the germ-cell, to which I have given the name of germ-plasm.

August Weismann

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• Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Visual
  • Prospect

• I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Help
  • Care

• Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.

  

  Hank Stram
  • People
  • Life
  • Day

• Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Work
  • Present

• Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Life
  • Real
  • May

• Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a long memory - they said no and Bill Gates said yes.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Long
  • Memory
  • Apple

• I lived in New York City for a while and miss it like it's a person. Although I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, I'm a New Yorker at heart. A stroll through Central Park, a visit to the MET, a show on Broadway. There is no other city like it in the world!

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Up
  • World
  • Heart

• I am the best. There is nobody better than me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Best
  • Better

• You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.

  

  Olin Miller
  • People
  • Know
  • Worry

• Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.

  

  Fionnula Flanagan
  • Movies
  • First
  • Hollywood

• It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Single

• There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • World
  • Language
  • Learn

• I'm a kid who grew up working hard.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Working
  • Kid

• When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Work
  • Different
  • Experience

• From any vocabulary of ideas we can build other ideas by formal combinations of signs. But not any set of ideas will be instructive. One must have the right ideas.

  

  Ian Hacking

• Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help…It makes them spoon-fed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Truth
  • Help

• I was always in love with film and becoming a character and playing something else, and nobody ever told me no, so I just followed it, and here I am, having a ton of fun.

  

  Nichole Hiltz
  • Character
  • Fun

• Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • Life
  • Design
  • Planning

• I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.

  

  Plutarch
  • Man
  • Physician
  • Tiberius

• I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

  

  Cass Daley
  • Thought
  • Marrying

• The sex can stay dirty, but the values have to be clean.

  

  Erika Lust
  • Values
  • Dirty

• The nature of heredity is based upon the transmission of nuclear substance with a specific molecular constitution. This substance is the specific nucleoplasm of the germ-cell, to which I have given the name of germ-plasm.

  

  August Weismann
  • Nature
  • Constitution
  • Molecular