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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.
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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.
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What is called posterity is the posterity of the work of art.
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Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.
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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.
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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
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That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.
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I say the elite looks out of touch because it's kind of saying; look we'll manage all this for you. You know, we know best. We'll sort it all out for you. And then because people believe that doesn't meet their case for change and they want real change, social media and the way the relationship between people can come into a sense of belonging very quickly, that then is itself a revolutionary phenomenon. You see this around the world.
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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.
