Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Brokaw

You may be guided by the unending effort of poets and artists, biologists and psychiatrists to describe that irreplaceable and still mysterious emotion so essential to the human condition, but all the search engines in the universe cannot compete with the first kiss.

Robin Marantz Henig

When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic explanation and wonder how that gene or genes might enhance survival or reproductive success.

Irwin Rose

Enzymologists usually study the initial rates of reactions measuring product formation as a function of substrate concentration or other variable. Cell biologists are more likely to want to know the effect of a change on the steady state behavior of a complex system.

Kenneth Kamler

When I went to Amazonia, l went as the field doctor for biologists studying crocodile behavior. There's no way humans should have any encounters with crocodiles. You should stay away from them!

Tim Feldner

Population reductions are one tool that wildlife biologists have used to try to manage hot spots.

Craig Venter

Mathematicians have been hiding and writing messages in the genetic code for a long time, but it's clear they were mathematicians and not biologists because, if you write long messages with the code that the mathematicians developed, it would more than likely lead to new proteins being synthesized with unknown functions.

Jonathan Miller

Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that.

Bruce Batt

It all started to occur in the '70s, and by the '90s biologists were noticing some pretty serious damage to the habitat on the breeding colonies at several locations in the Arctic. They were getting together at various conferences and realized that they were seeing the same thing.

Ken Goldberg

Biologists spend a great deal of time observing and recording nature using traditional video equipment. So we're trying to help them bring the latest technology into the field.

Siri Hustvedt

Many scholars working in the humanities have already shown interest in brain research. For years, contemporary theory in the humanities has left the body and biology out of their discussions.

Richard J. Roberts

Much of my work in biology has been driven by my early training in chemistry. When studying a new chemical compound, the first and most important thing is to determine its detailed molecular structure.

Michael Young

No one had ever labeled the components to follow them over time, to see one clock as it ticks away in a single cell. All the biochemistry and molecular biology that had been done on this had been piecing together information from dead flies.

Gabe Gauthier

When I came to Denver, ... I wasn't much of a student and really didn't think I could finish with a degree. Then I look at Ted who has a 3.94 GPA and working for a biology degree towards medical school. The guy is up until 5 a.m. doing homework, then goes to class and practice, even helps me with school stuff. He makes all of us better students and players.

Jack Smith

Basically, it's strictly a school to learn about gardening, lawn work, understanding the chemistry and biology of plants ? things people are interested in around their home.

Bill Nye

We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.

Paul Nurse

A key issue in developmental biology at that time was the problem of how cells underwent differentiation, with most workers concentrating on explanations in terms of changes in enzyme and gene regulation.

Derek Taylor

We need to know the species identities in order to understand how freshwater communities are changing over time, as a response to climate change, pollution or invasive species. We're hoping that by studying the biology of the rare males, we can learn more about species diversity and freshwater ecosystem changes.

Martha Beck

For the vast majority of world history, human life - both culture and biology - was shaped by scarcity. Food, clothing, shelter, tools, and pretty much everything else had to be farmed or fabricated, at a very high cost in time and energy.

Robert Kazinsky

Being a 'hunk' is going to do great things for my love life, and I'll get a lot more offers. But I'll certainly never see myself as one.

Roger von Oech

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Mallory Ortberg

It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.

Drew Goddard

Like anything, I think there are some wonderful found footage movies, and there are some less good. Certainly when it's done well, I really love it. I really love it as a genre.

David Eisenberg

Like a detective, Melinda traced this fibril-forming property down to a little peptide. Nobody expected that 1 percent of the protein could have the essence of the whole protein and could form fibrils on its own; I certainly didn't expect that. There were only seven amino acids in that fragment. Rebecca later found the peptide could be cut to only four amino acids and form fibrils.

Drew DiPippo

Making the tournament has certainly been our focus. We have a tough road to get there, but it's our focus and goal and we're going to keep plugging towards it.

Tim Deal

Macs still present a price premium on the consumer side. That will always be an issue to many consumers. However, for those where technology and differentiation by innovation is the key purchasing factor, this certainly does remove that obstacle.

Keith Gumbinger

Leveraging yourself out at a time when (home) prices are very high certainly could set you up for difficult times.

David Pierce

Let's see... how old am I? I'm definitely in my 50s... and I've certainly always been in my 50s. I could be older than that... but I'm not willing to face that.

John Sutton

Maybe he's not as inclined to question the who, what, where, when and how first,

Jessica Biel

I'd like to start writing scripts. I think I'd probably be inclined to write a very dark comedy or a tragic romance. As a kid, I used to write really dark stuff.

Jim Talent

I don't know why there weren't plans, ... If there had been and they were inadequate, I'd be inclined to say nobody's perfect - but it just seemed like they weren't doing anything.

Sivamani

For a long time, I have been inclined to start a school for the talented children.

Leon Redbone

I don't do anything mysterious on purpose. I'm less than forthcoming, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm mysterious. It just means I'm not inclined to go there.

John Fiske

We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ.

Tom Rogers

People will be much more inclined to watch broadband-delivered video if it shows up on the TV screen.

Marty Kaplan

People are inclined to have buyer's remorse about him. Most people are going to show up with a mood, and they're going to vote their mood, which is anti-Schwarzenegger.

Mike Leavitt

People are not inclined to produce products for which there is no market,

Martha Stewart

Many, many people have suffered. People have lost jobs. I am very saddened and very, very sorry for that.

Jim Talent

Missouri is going to be better off because we've kept these jobs in Missouri.

Walt Fennell

One of our jobs is to be a greeter. As a resident, I like that too.

Roger Williams

One of my major jobs as secretary of state is to get people to vote, and I'm going to do my job.

O. J. Simpson

No, no, no, Lisa. If adults don't like their jobs, they don't go on strike. They just go in every day and do it really half-assed.

Jay Shows

One thousand-plus jobs within a 40-mile radius represents a major labor provider.

Ray Giacoletti

Money is the crux of our business. People take jobs because of money. Money ruins everyone.

Roger Schagrin

Numerous plants will be shut down, thousands of workers will lose their jobs and communities will be devastated.

Dito Montiel

When I had jobs, I was always doing manual jobs because I couldn't think. I worked at the docks, unloading trucks, and did ridiculous jobs.

Donald Trump

Let's see how Buchanan does and then maybe we'll step in,

Michael Schaffer

Maybe you need to look at your student evaluations.

George H. W. Bush

Maybe you know something I don't know. I've been working,

Larry Brown

Maybe when you play Miami, you need 36 fouls in the middle; I don't know,

Chris Shelton

Maybe when the season is over, I can realize what I did to start the season and that I did something special. Right now, it's about getting some wins.

Evan Needham

Maybe when I'm not playing well I can get sick of golf. But then I get back into it again.

Donald Lowe

Maybe what we'll find is that you really need a combination of two tests, again, because not one test does everything for everybody.

Sam Singer

Maybe we should trade in our supervisor for somebody up in Seattle.

Brian Urlacher

Maybe we shouldn't get a bye week anymore.

Albert Schweitzer

Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.

Richie Benaud

Let's just say that at 74 I'm in the mindset that, having been free-to-air, I want to stay free-to-air.

William Wordsworth

Minds that have nothing to conferFind little to perceive.

Daina Parent

Mind over matter, baby. This is what we've trained for all year. This is ours.

Ron Oden

None of this has anything to do with me running. So, what's the real issue? What is the issue? I can't get into the minds of people.

Proverb Proverbs

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Nikolai Gogol

Never mind beauty! Concentrate on the things that matter.

Theophilus London

When you're a kid, you're only exposed to what's going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.

Douglas Booth

I get bored quite easily, so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself.

Hanna Rosin

Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods.

Kyle MacLachlan

I did a little movie called 'Touch of Pink,' where I played a Cary Grant-type guy, which I thought was a lot of fun, and I thought I was moderately successful in my own interpretation of Cary Grant.

Michael White

Tomorrow is going to be a big physics day.

Antony Garrett Lisi

What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only if these interactions are perfectly balanced.

David Hilbert

Physics is much too hard for physicists.

Elizabeth Moon

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

Daniel H. Wilson

Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.

Edward Witten

String theory is 21 st century physics that fell accidentally into the 20th century.

Ben Stein

There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever.

Albert Einstein

If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science.

Albert Einstein

The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.

Kylie Minogue

When I was younger, my grandma taught me how to cut patterns and sew.

Tyra Banks

I just think, as a model, it's taught me to be a master of deception and illusion.

Charles R. Swindoll

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

Ed Parker

Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.

Ada Huxtable

She taught us how to look at blocks.

Kelsey Jakupcin

She taught me that winning as a team is more important than winning as an individual. It's all about the team.

Shelli Adams

She has taught me to be an administrator, to be global, to really look for what?s right for the kids.

Ben Jonson

He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Ving Rhames

The more versatile you make yourself, the more work you get. Training makes you more versatile and ultimately gets you more work. Julliard taught me that.