Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca Skloot

Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them white. And they did so on the same campus—and at the very same time—that state officials were conducting the infamous Tuskegee syphilis studies.

Robert Clark

Embryonic cells, by their very definition, are not from your body. Right now, inside your body, you have everything necessary to build what you need now.

Tracy Letts

We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.

Richard Dawkins

When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell.

Richard Dawkins

For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.

Werner Arber

Although a biologist, I must confess I do not understand how life came about... I consider that life only starts at the level of a functional cell. The most primitive cells may require at least several hundred different specific biological macro-molecules. How such already quite complex structures may have come together, remains a mystery to me. The possibility of the existence of a Creator, of God, represents to me a satisfactory solution to this problem.

Wentworth Miller

There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer.

W. S. Merwin

There is part of a structure in which every species is related to every other species. And they're built up on species, like a pyramid. The simpler cell organisms, and then the more complicated ones, all the way up to the mammals and birds and so forth. We call it 'developing upward'... The whole thing depends on every part of it. And we're taking out the stones from the pyramid.

Virginia Foxx

Adult stem cells tend not to form tumors.

Virginia Foxx

A stem cell is essentially a blank cell capable of becoming another, more differentiated cell-type in the body, such as a skin cell, a muscle cell or a nerve cell.

W. H. Auden

Each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.

Thomas Hardy

That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony. As you got older, and felt yourself to be at the center of your time, and not at a point in its circumference, as you had felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived. All around you there seemed to be something glaring, garish, rattling, and the noises and glares hit upon the little cell called your life, and shook it, and warped it.

Jean Houston

You are not an encapsulated bag of skin dragging around a dreary little ego. You are an evolutionary wonder, a trillion cells singing together in a vast chorale, an organism – environment, a symbiosis of cell and soul.

Jen Lancaster

When did the cell phone become a license to be rude? And why must I be subjected to your personal conversations?

George Sand

Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary ...

Elon Musk

A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery.

Esther Hicks

Your cells are as depressed as you are, and your cells are as happy and frisky as you are.

Ernst Haeckel

The cell never acts; it reacts.

Homaro Cantu

Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain.

Ian Somerhalder

The symphonic sounds of nature awaken every cell in my body and, in that moment, without a doubt, I am truly alive.

Gina Gershon

I'm involved in Project ALS which is trying to get money for stem cell research. That's one I've been pretty involved with because if you can cure that, you can cure so many other diseases.

George Bernard Shaw

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

Gena Showalter

He was in my nose, my mouth, on my skin, inside my cells, deep in the marrow of my bones. Just then, he was everything to me.

Christian Bale

Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it's true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you have.

Chris Pratt

I lose my cell phone so much that I switch it every month or so, but Sony Ericsson is usually what I use.

George W. Bush

Embryonic stem cell research is at the leading edge of a series of moral hazards.

George W. Bush

I have faith, as I did when I announced my stem-cell decision in 2001, that science and ethics can coexist.

George Orwell

The weariness of the cell is the vigour of the organism.

Francis Crick

The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar.

Sometimes you have to leave empty cells to separate the groups. That cuts down your capacity.

I've erased her from my cell phone. I never want to hear from her again, ... a lie.

Joe Horn

I'm only going to have one question for him, and it has nothing to do with Hurricane Katrina. How in the hell can a head coach pull out a cell phone on the sideline and not get fined and a player can pull out a cell phone and get fined $30,000?

Erma Bombeck

Authorities say brain cells may shrink, but they don't necessarily die. Frankly, I am cheered by the fact that something is shrinking. I'd be even more thrilled if what was shrinking affected my dress size, but you can't have everything.