Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Lugar

No one would have predicted in the 1980's that Americans and Russians would be working side-by-side on the ground in Russia destroying thousands of nuclear weapons systems, as well as biological and chemical weapons.

John Wilbanks

No pharmaceutical company is making money by selling biological knowledge - they make money by selling chemicals. So getting as much of that knowledge as possible into the efficiency of the Web-commerce world is going to make it faster to find those chemicals.

Craig Venter

Now that we can read and write the genetic code, put it in digital form and translate it back into synthesized life, it will be possible to speed up biological evolution to the pace of social evolution.

From a biological standpoint, the declines in harvest don't concern me. Turkeys are very susceptible to changes in habitat, food availability and weather conditions during the brood-rearing period. Populations are going to fluctuate. Statistically, I don't think these declines are that significant.

I feel totally lucky and happy. I think a lot of young directors feel this way but you sort of, like, have a biological clock that starts ticking and you like feel like you aren't anything until you direct a movie and you need to find yourself and this is how you do it.

Seth Shostak

Junk, redundancy, and inefficiency characterize astrophysical signals. It seems they characterize cells and sea lions, too. These biological constructions have lots of superfluous and redundant parts, and are a long way from being optimally built or operated.

George Weinberg

No man wants to feel that he's there because of his woman's biological clock or because he's filling a job opening for husband or significant other.

The fact that the association is statistically significant despite the crudeness of our estimates suggests that the true biological association is very strong. Darwin's famous book was called 'On the Origin of Species,' but it was really about natural selection on traits rather than species formation. Since our study suggests that natural selection is a general cause of species formation, it seems that Darwin chose an appropriate title after all.

Laurie Garrett

What we're watching in real time is evolution. And it's a biological process, and it is, by definition, unpredictable.

Stan Smith

Joshua trees, those are wonderful, supporting a lot of biological diversity, a lot of mammals, a lot of birds, and they're aesthetically pleasing. We are looking at losing that and having it replaced with exotic grasslands.

You have to follow the process every time because the biological function could be affected.

Javier Solana

It clearly proves that diplomacy can win over the proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

Richard Butler

He mentioned in particular his wish for me to hear their report on chemical and biological weapons. That seemed to me to be a positive development and I took it in good spirit.

David Wilson

With moisture, our homes have so many products in the home that are food sources for mold growth, so not only is it the structural damage and the paint loss and the discoloration, but the potential for significant biological growth - either mold or bacteria.

He testified he didn't want them because they were girls. It is my understanding the girls are in foster care and have not been reunited with their biological parents.

Barton Gellman

Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries.

They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons.

Tommy Thompson

This will bolster our emergency smallpox stockpile, provide an extra layer of protection for all Americans in the event of a smallpox outbreak and strengthen our safety net in the event of a biological attack,

The evolvement of proteolysis as a centrally important regulatory mechanism is a remarkable example for the development of a novel biological concept and the accompanying battles to change paradigms.

Aaron Klug

This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.

Abraham Verghese

We're now able to show that the words of comfort trigger biological reactions which are the very things that you want, and you can use drugs to get there, or you can use words of comfort to get there, which would make your drugs so much more effective.

But the other thing is the question are you willing to take the first punch, and how big a punch would that be ...? Could it be an explosion of a nuclear or dirty bomb or the use of chemical or biological weapons, and are you willing to live with that. That is the challenge for policy makers and it is no small challenge.

But more importantly, 90 percent of cases don't even involve biological evidence. And what that tells us is there are obviously tens of thousands of innocent people currently languishing in prisons in the United States.

Alison Gopnik

Many philosophers say it's impossible to explain our conscious experience in scientific, biological terms at all. But that's not exactly true. Scientists have explained why we have certain experiences and not others. It's just that they haven't explained the special features of consciousness that philosophers care about.

Peter Agre

Water is commonly regarded as the 'solvent of life,' since our bodies are 70% water. All other vertebrates, invertebrates, microbes, and plants are also primarily water. The organization of water within biological compartments is fundamental to life, and the aquaporins serve as the plumbing systems for cells.

Jalal Talabani

We will in the future, we will search and we will find some kind of chemical weapons and biological weapons,

John Bolton

We call on Cuba to cease all BW-applicable cooperation with rogue states and to fully comply with all of its obligations under the Biological Weapons Convention,

Peter Hain

We have good reason to suspect that Iraq is still hiding chemical, biological and weapons of mass destruction in a range of locations.

We will enhance coordination of proposed sequencing projects through the Biological and Environmental Research Microbial Sequencing Program or the Joint Genome Institute's Community Sequencing Program.

There is no question in our minds that the unidentified female is Laci Peterson and the unidentified fetus is the biological child of Laci and Scott Peterson,

Nutrients are not drugs and they can't be studied as drugs. They are part of a biological system where all nutrients work as a team to support your biochemical processes.

Hans Blix

Our inspectors had been there, and they had taken a lot of samples, and there was no trace of any chemicals or biological things, ... And the trucks that we had seen were water trucks.

Ari Fleischer

I think the reason that we know Saddam Hussein possesses chemical and biological weapons is from a wide variety of means. That's how we know,