Gary Marcus Quotes
“Because genes work in combination, the incremental effect of adding a new gene to a genome may be not linear, but exponential.”
Quotes to Explore
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.
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I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
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Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry.
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Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.
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A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
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We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds.
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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
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Being able to communicate with a loved one that you haven't talked to in a while because of some communication break makes their life and your life in a much better place.
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I do believe that if it's meant to be, it will be. Luckily for me, things worked out.
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I think we realized what was at stake.
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Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.
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I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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We aren't playing defense and we aren't rebounding the basketball. This has gotten off to a bad start, but we have to find a way to turn it around.
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The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
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Of all the arts I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect.
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I'm kind of like a guy who's missing a little bit of the guy gene. Like, I love steak, but the notion of golfing is the last thing I would want to do. I love women, but I'm also a mama's boy, and some of my best friends are women. So I'm kinda half guy's guy.
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I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the erotic full of nervous tension which animates the sensuality, and also Zimroth's feeling for words, compressed, ironic, withholding, but also 'asking for it . . . the siege, the thrill, the battle fatigue.' A profoundly urban book, of harsh memory and fantasy, set in harsher reality.
