E. O. Wilson Quotes
The second half of the 20th century was a golden age of molecular biology, and it was one of the golden ages of the history of science. Molecular biology was so successful and made such a powerful alliance with the medical scientists that the two together just flourished. And they continue to flourish.
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The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
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Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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I am neither going to Bollywood nor joining politics.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
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More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.
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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
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I'm really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.
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I can never find the right bras.
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I'm not a violent person.
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Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.
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Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.
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A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.
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I just write the stuff I want to at the time, what feels right for me.
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The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.
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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
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The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.
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We constantly had family conversations. A lot of conversations about life. We've always been a family to where we did everything together, whether it was karate or Bible study... I just really had a chance to look and learn.
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The second half of the 20th century was a golden age of molecular biology, and it was one of the golden ages of the history of science. Molecular biology was so successful and made such a powerful alliance with the medical scientists that the two together just flourished. And they continue to flourish.
