Edmund Beecher Wilson Quotes

Not a single visible phenomenon of cell­division gives even a remote suggestion of qualitative division. All the facts, on the contrary, indicate that the division of the chromatin is carried out with the most exact equality.

Edmund Beecher Wilson

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• We should reserve the notion of 'morality' for the ways in which we can affect one another's experience for better or worse. Some people use the term 'morality' differently, of course, but I think we have a scientific responsibility to focus the conversation so as to make it most useful.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Experience
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• I just feel abstinence is the right thing to do. You don't want to ruin the experience of first sex with your wife, by comparing it to what you've done before.

  

  Sam Reed
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• The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.

  

  Karl Pearson
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• Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.

  

  Loni Anderson
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• It was a promise she knew I might not be able to keep. But I made it anyway because I was going to find a way to make it true.

  

  Kami Garcia
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• I was trained by my husband. He said, If you want a thing done go. If not send. I belong to that group of people who move the piano themselves.

  

  Eleanor Robson Belmont
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  • Done
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• I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • People
  • Children
  • Help

• As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.

  

  Kabir
  • Great
  • Fool
  • Honey

• I'll tell you what a friendship is to me. Friendship to me is, if my friends need my little finger to live, I'm going to have it cut off. I'm going to the hospital, they cut off my finger, and maybe I have a gold finger instead, and I become famous. But I still give it to my friend.

  

  Udo Kier
  • Live
  • Friends
  • Friend

• What is called posterity is the posterity of the work of art.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Work
  • Art
  • Posterity

• Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Diversity
  • Means
  • Untouchability

• Lords, knights and gentlemen, what I should say My tears gainsay; for every word I speak, Ye see I drink the water of my eye.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Water
  • Eye
  • Speak

• But when he couldn't even touch his knees, I thought, Yes! This guy needs me.

  

  Eddie George
  • Needs
  • Knees

• Halfway through the winter, I decided I didn't want to be a comic anymore. I wanted to be a bear. Because bears are more evolved. It gets cold, and what does the bear do? He goes, 'Well, I'm going to bed! This blows!' And then it gets warm and he goes, 'Well, fuck, time to wake up!'

  

  Lewis Black
  • Up
  • Time
  • Cold

• No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Flower
  • Bird
  • Shining

• I've always favoured proposition over opposition. But we will oppose the government when it's off track.We'll support positive suggestions that we'll bring forward and support the government when it's making progress.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Support
  • Government
  • Positive

• Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion.

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Remember
  • Animal
  • Suggestion

• Not a single visible phenomenon of cell­division gives even a remote suggestion of qualitative division. All the facts, on the contrary, indicate that the division of the chromatin is carried out with the most exact equality.

  

  Edmund Beecher Wilson
  • Phenomenon
  • Division
  • Suggestion