Edwin Conklin Quotes

Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides - that of the breeder, the experimenter, the statistician, the physiologist, the embryologist, the cytologist - but the mechanism of heredity can be studied best by the investigation of the germ cells and their development.

Edwin Conklin

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• Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • You
  • Fool
  • Genius

• A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Man
  • Opinion
  • Woman

• I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Think
  • Me
  • Angry

• I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Different
  • Character

• I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Want
  • Ego

• I always felt if you were going to be successful, make sure you get good people. You win with great players. Coaches don't win games. Players win games.

  

  Hank Stram
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• When I think of Emily Dickinson, there's not one particular poem of hers that jumps out, but I do have a very vivid image of an ill woman with giant eyes who wants to write about the sun exploding.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Eyes
  • Woman
  • Sun

• I see city finances within the context of an economic strategy... We are going to solve our financial problems by growing the economy, and I have rejected some corners that have called for a slash-and-burn approach, and I've rejected others who have called for raising taxes and leaving government as is.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Growing
  • City
  • Government

• The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Good
  • Way
  • Growth

• While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • May
  • Want
  • Party

• We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Country
  • Hope
  • Situation

• My dad named me after Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who attacked Rome. But nobody knows about him.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Dad
  • Knows
  • General

• There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Video

• It's probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell. If you're going to spend two years of your life on something it has to matter to you, you have to be passionate about it.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Film
  • Care

• Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Dream
  • Alone
  • Results

• I got me a car and I got me some gas,Told everybody they could kiss my ass.

  

  Glenn Frey The Eagles
  • Car
  • Kiss
  • Kissing

• Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• I think there's a general confusion that my work is about types of photography. But really that's just a tool to introduce some questions I have about seeing. What happens when all of these conditions and structures and histories and cultures and tools you have around you begin to fail? On the one hand there is an engagement with histories and cultures, and on the other, there is this very lonesome space of actually coming to terms with seeing.

  

  Elad Lassry
  • Photography
  • Conditions
  • Fail

• The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Children
  • School
  • Reading

• Gorbachev was acutely aware of the [USSR] economic problems, and it was central to all he did. He wanted to change the system in hopes of saving it. In the end he could not.

  

  David Hoffman
  • Problem
  • Economic
  • Gorbachev

• I would like to say, you know, that, unfortunately, we have many unresolved problems. But a great number of people in Russia know Japan and love Japan, and I am sure that eventually we will resolve all our problems.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Problem
  • Resolve

• Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'.

  

  John Graham Mellor The 101ers
  • Truth
  • Attitude
  • Punk Rock

• Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides - that of the breeder, the experimenter, the statistician, the physiologist, the embryologist, the cytologist - but the mechanism of heredity can be studied best by the investigation of the germ cells and their development.

  

  Edwin Conklin
  • Problem
  • Development
  • Biology