Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Harmon Eyre

We're not disputing that there is a plausibility that secondhand smoke could cause breast cancer. All we're saying is that the evidence has just not reached that level.

Laurie Fenton

Lung cancer continues to be portrayed as a self-induced cancer that does not deserve public research funding.

Jerre Jones

Last year, the American Cancer Society spent $130 million nationally, with most of the money going into cancer research.

Dr. House

Less money is made by biochemists working on a cure for cancer than by their colleagues struggling valiantly to hide steroid use.

Caitriona Balfe

Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.

Jennifer Robinson

Screenings in general are incredibly important because cancer, like many other diseases, the first part in curing it is detecting it. So prevention is of the utmost importance.

Stanley Rosenblatt

Secondhand smoke causes cancer and other diseases. But the tobacco industries' overall global strategy and tactic was to plant doubt in the minds of the American people ... Does it really?

J. M. Roberts

So it is probably less important to do preventive health and find a cancer early or risk factors -- than it is to make sure the patients don't already have problems that could lead to sudden incapacitation.

Craig Meyers

So many cancer therapies are as poisonous to healthy cells as they are to cancer cells. A therapy that is able to distinguish between healthy and cancer cells could be less difficult to endure for those with cancer.

Ted Parrish

Semi stocks won't do anything until we get guidance about estimates for 2004. Otherwise, the stocks will get really overheated.

Drake Johnstone

If they exceed estimates for this quarter, which I think they will, and raise guidance for the upcoming quarter, investors would be more favorably inclined to Microsoft.

Mike Rann

World Health Organisation estimates suggest we prepare for a situation where one quarter of our population is infected,

Joe Haworth

We did lose possibly as much as two million gallons onto the beaches. We're still doing the estimates on that. We don't know how much could possibly have made it to the ocean. We know some did.

Joe Walsh

I think the latest estimates were that we have about 250,000 millionaires and billionaires. President Obama wants to increase their taxes 13 percent.

Tom Courtney

I think you're going to see a really wide range of estimates unless they help us with that, which I'm not sure they'll do.

Gale Norton

These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.

Michael Ching

We expect to maintain our estimates at $1.05 a share for 2000 and $1.43 for 2001, so Motorola remains the most attractively valued stock in our universe, at 23 times 2001 EPS estimates.

Margaret Gatz

Our finding confirms the higher estimates that have been suggested previously.

John Christiansen

Last year we had an accelerated program, so this year, to take an accelerated program to a higher level, it's safe to say that because of 318A.

Tom Davies

Last year, the winds were around 25 to 26 knots out of the north. This year, it was even higher winds, but out of the south.

Craig Venter

Mitochondrial DNA is in higher concentration, lasts longer, and can be extracted from bones.

Renee Ellmers

Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level.

Susan Ferguson

More rural states tend to have higher fatalities.

Marie Wilson

More women should be running for higher office. This is just a straw poll, but it makes people think about putting a woman in the White House.

Alderman Mokros

Now we are looking at a higher price.

Ed Slott

Now the IRS fees are higher than mine.

Doug Davis

We might be in for a pause after the recent gains. We're waiting to see when rising interest rates have an impact. Higher rates in the U.S. are the key -- if the U.S. falters, the rest of the world will falter, too.

Glen Davis

One of his lungs had collapsed. He couldn't breathe. You could see him struggling for air.

Dana Christie

With my lung problems, they didn't think I'd do well in trench warfare.

Loni Anderson

We have so much lung capacity that we don't even notice a problem until we are in our 40s.

Craig Venter

If you have lung cancer, the most important thing you can know is your genetic code.

John Green

my lungs sucked at being lungs.

Elizabeth Blackburn

In my early work, our molecular views of telomeres were first focused on the DNA.

Paul Berg

By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.

Jacques Monod

There are living systems; there is no'living matter'.

L. Heroux

Make sure what you risk is yours to lose.

Shannon LaRocque

Scripps is important to the county, but at what risk to taxpayers?

Colleen Hartman

We had a very gut-wrenching decision. We thought at the time that there was too much risk to go forward.

Denis Diderot

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

Edward Abbey

To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.

Joe Girardi

I wouldn't do that. You don't want to risk him getting hurt. The only way I would do that is if it's something like the 19th inning and we're out of people.

Jason Giambi

I would give it a try, but they said don't even try. It's not worth risking it. I'm walking a little better. It's not so tight.

S.K.R. Amarasekara

I'm a little more worried now. The risk is higher.

Kevin Harvick

I'm all for taking chances. But you have to make sure you don't get caught. You have to know if the risk is worth the penalty.

Eric Jackson

If the studies are accurate, we can see Oaklawn take it to new levels.

Steven Nissen

We've been misled many times by observational studies like this,

Gerardo Cardenas

They shouldn't have their studies interrupted because of the situation.

Matthew Daus

This is one of the most important studies we've seen.