Carl Zimmer Quotes

Over millions of years the viruses in our genome mutate more and more so the look less and less and less recognizable as viruses and so if there was a virus that infected our pre mammal ancestors like 250 million years ago, which it probably did, we can't see it because it just looks totally random.

Carl Zimmer

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• I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Look
  • Hide

• When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a little and remind yourself where you are in the process and what's next. Invariably. you are spending twice as much time on parts of the task.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Yourself

• If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Fun
  • Black
  • Morning

• At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Age
  • Pessimistic

• My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.

  

  Manika
  • Different
  • Important
  • Children

• I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It's good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly - rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it's their style.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when he can't see it or feel it, if he wants it to be there. You realize, I think, that it is more valuable, more mysterious, altogether more immense than anything you can learn or decide upon It will keep you free - not free to do anything you please, but free to be formed by something larger than your own intellect or the intellects around you.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Life
  • Free
  • Faith

• He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.

  

  A. Lee Martinez
  • Help

• Isn't telling about something-using words, English or Japanese-already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?

  

  Yann Martel
  • World
  • Words
  • English

• It is fatal to let any dog know that he is funny, for he immediately loses his head and starts hamming it up.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Dog

• A kid thinks her mother is just that -- hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being, who doesn't want to be reminded by anyone, child or otherwise, of her tree-trunk thighs. The world made women's private lives a public affair to people who knew them and even people who didn't.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • People
  • World
  • Women

• You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a (flag) pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • War

• Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Life
  • Literature
  • Recognition

• The Atonement of Jesus Christ outweighs, surpasses, and transcends every other mortal event, every new discovery, and every acquisition of knowledge, for without the Atonement all else in life is meaningless.

  

  Tad R. Callister
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Jesus

• I was sitting at home one day and I got a call that Riccardo Tisci was considering me for the face of the Givenchy Spring/Summer 2014 campaign, and I said, "Are you kidding?" and that was the end of the conversation. I'm a really big fan.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Home
  • Summer
  • Spring

• I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Genius
  • Cocaine
  • Declare

• I had a chair at every hearth, When no one turned to see, With 'Look at that old fellow there, 'And who may he be?

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • May
  • Age
  • Looks

• I'm easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Looks
  • Easy

• I always wonder: the images that hit your brain when you're young are so significant, because there's not that much information in your brain. As you get older, things just bounce off. I can remember these minute details of stupid TV shows from the '70s, and I can't remember a book I read yesterday.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Brain

• In a sense it (Christianity) creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is righteousness and loving.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Over millions of years the viruses in our genome mutate more and more so the look less and less and less recognizable as viruses and so if there was a virus that infected our pre mammal ancestors like 250 million years ago, which it probably did, we can't see it because it just looks totally random.

  

  Carl Zimmer
  • Looks
  • Ancestor
  • Mammals