Rebecca Skloot famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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 campusâ€”and at the very same timeâ€”that state officials were conducting the infamous Tuskegee syphilis studies.
-- Rebecca Skloot

#Cells #White #Black
The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.'
-- Rebecca Skloot

#Thinking #Giving #Research
But I tell you one thing, I don't want to be immortal if it mean living forever, cause then everybody else just die and get old in front of you while you stay the same, and that's just sad.
-- Rebecca Skloot

#Mean #Forever #Causes
Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.
-- Rebecca Skloot

#Cells #Viruses #Mutation
Like I'm always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can't do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember, times was different.
-- Rebecca Skloot

#Brother #Attitude #Hate
I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.
-- Rebecca Skloot

#Class #Cells #Firsts
For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits.
-- Rebecca Skloot

#Cells #Done #Research
Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you're working on it - and I think writing is the same way.
-- Rebecca Skloot

#Writing #Thinking #Data

It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot
If we examine the accomplishments of man in his most advanced endeavors, in theory and in practice, we find that the cell has done all this long before him, with greater resourcefulness and much greater efficiency.
This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.
Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.
I like to experience the universe as one harmonious whole. Every cell has life. Matter, too, has life; it is energy solidified. The tree outside is life... The whole of nature is life... The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can't grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.
Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant.
Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
I love writing, but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, Giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy: I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.
White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.

Rebecca Skloot famous quotes

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