Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bonnie Bassler

By weight, you are more human than bacteria, because your cells are bigger, but by numbers, it's not even close.

Stephen Rea

I'd like to own a movie camera - a proper one, with film, not a digital thing. Celluloid has more character.

We finally understand in general terms how a cell is organized, how its specialized organs function in a well integrated manner to insure its survival and replication.

Since my high school years, I have been interested in history, especially in Roman history, a topic on which I have read rather extensively. The Latin that goes with this kind of interest proved useful when I had to generate a few terms and names for cell biology.

Gregory Benford

Certainly I see no reason why society should prevent grieving parents from having a baby cloned from the cells of a dead child if they wish.

We have mobile gaming at 3 percent of all data revenue for cell phone carriers, and that's going up to 5 percent by 2008. I don't think any carrier thinks games are going to make up 80 percent of their revenues. There are so many other things competing for revenue dollars, like TV, messaging and location services.

Jason Molina

When I write a record, I don't even touch a computer. I don't even bring my cell phone.

Eric Ross

The reason they are doing this is they need to move away from the PC to being a solution provider. The real growth for the next five years is cell phones, and for the next 10 years is probably consumer electronics, and Intel has done a really poor job of penetrating those areas.

Otto Loewi

In nerve-free multicellular organisms, the relationships of the cells to each other can only be of a chemical nature. In multicellular organisms with nerve systems, the nerve cells only represent cells like any others, but they have extensions suited to the purpose which they serve, namely the nerves.

Jacques Pepin

When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no special identity; it was just 'the wine,' from the cellar cask. The rules were general: white with the first course, red with the main course.

We learned that the two cell lines from which Hwang fabricated photos of the other nine cells for the Science paper do not match the DNA of patients who contributed ... cells.

We learn a lot by taking cells out, chopping them up, and looking at individual molecules. But it doesn't tell us what we need to know about the complex interactions between cells.

Ronald Graham

There are a lot of mathematical questions that come up when you're driving around, and you're leaving one cell site and connecting to another.

There are many times more cell phones and pagers than computers, and once hackers get into a consumer device at any level, they can initiate communication, ... My pager can run programs. Imagine what will happen when your refrigerator is Internet-enabled for ordering groceries.

Diane Ackerman

I like knowing that the further back one traces any lineage, the narrower the path grows, to the haunt of just a few shaggy ancestors, with luck on their side, little gizmos in their cells and a future storied with impulses and choices that will ultimately define them.

Aimee Mullins

The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people's cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home, you feel impacted by not having it. It's an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.

Burt Rutan

It's not good enough for us to have generations of kids that... look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a video in it. They need to look forward to exploration.

Robert Lanza

We have shown in a mouse model that you can generate embryonic stem cells using a method that does not interfere with the developmental potential of the embryo,

There is a (better) safety factor because we are transmitting at such low power to a cell site right in the airplane.

We saw a dramatic change in the level of interest in state funding of embryonic stem cell research last year, and we expect the momentum to continue this year.

We said maybe we could see the cell phone flew out of the truck and got crushed. But the tools? We know they were there.

We knew the wine cellar would turn out to be a real showpiece.

Benjamin Crump

We are working on the arrangements.... Saying (Anderson) died of sickle cell trait is like saying a man who was lynched died because he had a weak neck.

Michael King

We consider today's announcement to be the death of the prospects for widespread use of Avastin plus Tarceva in renal cell carcinoma.

We congratulate (South) Korea ... for constructing the world stem cell hub as a global lighthouse, safely and responsibly guiding us away from treacherous rocks.

David Eagleman

Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city.

David Baltimore

When we talk about stem cells, we are actually talking about a complicated series of things, including adult stem cells which are largely cells devoted to replacing individual tissues like blood elements or liver or even the brain.

Daryn Kagan

My two must-haves are my cell phone and my MacBook Pro laptop, which allows me to update my Web site from wherever I am, whether I'm in Africa or in Sun Valley skiing.

Tommy Thompson

We are spending more on medical research than at any time in our history. And the president opened the door to federal funding of ground-breaking embryonic stem cell research.

Israel Broussard

I think a lot of people get lost. They start following iconic figures and get drowned in the pool of celebrity. Our society, as we know it, is definitely changing. With social media and cell phones, you freak out when you don't know what's going on.

Expect a lot of trucks, cable, roads closed and people walking around on cell phones. But I think there will be an energy (people in Huntington) will get a kick out of.

Martin Scorsese

I'm sad to see celluloid go, there's no doubt. But, you know, nitrate went, by the way, in 1971. If you ever saw a nitrate print of a silent film and then saw an acetate print, you'd see a big difference, but nobody remembers anymore. The acetate print is what we have. Maybe. Now it's digital.

Pico Iyer

If I was a parent or a kid, I would need a cell phone, and those things are invaluable, but my kids are out of the house now, and I am thrilled when I wake up to not have a cell phone, and feel like today is stretching out in front of me for 1,000 hours, as it seems.