Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Hunt Morgan

For each chromosome contributed by the sperm there is a corresponding chromosome contributed by the egg, there are two chromosomes of each kind, which together constitute a pair.

Thomas Hunt Morgan

The egg of every species of animal or plant carries a definite number of bodies called chromosomes. The sperm carries the same number. Consequently, when the sperm unites with the egg, the fertilized egg will contain the double number of chromosomes.

Edward M. Purcell

The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.

Edward M. Purcell

I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.

J Allard

When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket.

David Bohm

Therefore it would be wrong and misleading to break it up into my thought, your thought, my feelings, these feelings, those feelings.

Paul D. Boyer

Minnesota has generally competent and honest public officials, good support of the schools and cultural amenities, and an excellent state university.

Anita Borg

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

J Allard

We're going to do something that's really unprecedented in the industry by launching the console in all three major markets for the same holiday. It's never been done before.

Lovie Smith

When you say the defense has carried us, that's what they're supposed to do. That's the strength of our team.

Jim McCormick

We have positive, enthusiastic learning centers in all our schools and that has carried over to Southern Lee, ... I'm hoping for a large turnout. Even people who don't or won't have children in school will have a very positive experience walking through Southern Lee High School. They will also see how schools have changed. As we consider renovations to Lee County High School, we will be looking at what we've done at Southern Lee." ()

Mahinda Rajapakse

We have planned to double and treble our efforts to overcome our constraints. Post-tsunami reconstruction will be carried out equitably in the South, the North and the East, in our country,

Scott Shane

President Gerald R. Ford was never one for second-guessing, but for many years after leaving office in 1977, he carried in his wallet a scrap of a 1915 Supreme Court ruling. 'A pardon,' the excerpt said, 'carries an imputation of guilt,' and acceptance of a pardon is 'a confession of it.'

Don Capshaw

The process started back in summer. We've talked about these things and carried them out. Number one was developing a Website where we could put all of our information out there and we've done that.

Tom Lehrer

The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

Ted Cruz

The systematic murder of Christians in the Middle East is a horrible atrocity, and all of us should be united against it. Likewise, we should speak with one voice against the persecution of Jews, usually being carried out by the very same jihadist radicals.

Martin Sawyers

We know from inspections carried out on the entire pipeline and throughout Westport that we do not have any major leakage at all. The reality is we're putting it down to a dry spell and a very unusual spell.

Greg Johnson

We are going to stand fast and see that due process is carried out, recognizing the fact that there are some problems in that regard.

Carlos Fuentes

By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.

C. S. Lewis

Here at last is the thing I was made for.

C. S. Lewis

Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.

Jimmy Johnson

We have to find some speed and turn things around. Thankfully, we had a strong start to the season, so this last month we really didn't have to race our way in. But we've got to find it in a hurry.

Agnetha Faltskog

Abba's last tour was a success but awful for me.

Joe Minucci

We were at the lowest of lows last year. We couldn't get any lower. This year we are looking to make a playoff push, and trying to win the division.

Alan Rudolph

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Chuck Morton

We've started off with literally nothing, and now we have 60 students.

Jim Ramstad

When I had alcoholic blackouts, I literally could not remember what I did the preceding night,

Doug Liman

'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' - every scene is from those characters' point of view. They're in literally every scene, very unusual in a big studio film.

Patti Savrick

We're quite worried. She's literally on minute-to-minute care.

Lawrence Vale

New Orleans was slowly sinking, literally and figuratively, well before Katrina.

Bianca Kajlich

That's literally been the story of my career. I'm always the second choice. And you know what? I'm more than happy to be that person.

Kathleen Bergen

We've been consolidating radar services literally for decades. When we do this, we make optimum use of the resources we have.

Beto O'Rourke

We in El Paso and Juarez are literally one community. There's no separation; there's no DMZ; there's no buffer.

Ryan Rourke

We saw literally no response from faculty, which was disheartening.

Thulasiraj Ravilla

A simple, well-proven surgery can restore sight to millions, and something even simpler, a pair of glasses, can make millions more see.

Susan Ertz

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

F. Stone

Let's just say it would be in the millions of dollars,

Mike Burkett

So many millions of people don't feel like their vote has any meaning. There is no reason why younger people can't be a unified force.

Katy Perry

I want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records.

Burt Shavitz

What do I need it for, millions of dollars? It just sounds like problems with the IRS to me.

Gary Barlow

We are all lucky to be here, we are lucky to be on stage and have millions of people watch us.

Jennifer Grey

There are millions of Americans who are suffering from chronic pain.

Viktor Yushchenko

Two months ago in this square, in squares and streets all over Ukraine, millions of people came,