Kary Mullis Quotes
Years from now, people will find our acceptance of the HIV theory of AIDS as silly as we find those who excommunicated Galileo.
Quotes to Explore
-
This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
-
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
-
I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
-
We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
-
Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
-
You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.
-
There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
-
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
-
I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
-
I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
-
I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
-
Any powerful technology can be abused.
-
I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
-
When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him.
-
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
-
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
-
People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
-
Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
-
I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call 'Don McLean' when I was probably in high school.
-
How many married couples do you know who met over accounting books in a Starbucks?
-
There's a tradeoff. Yeah, I lose the deduction that I really like, but my tax rate is going to go down, and I don't have to fill out that form anymore. It's much simpler, rates are lower, and that tradeoff has worked in many countries. Many countries have just cleaned house of all those exemptions in order to provide lower rates, and people buy it.
-
It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
-
I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.
-
Years from now, people will find our acceptance of the HIV theory of AIDS as silly as we find those who excommunicated Galileo.
