Darrel R. Falk famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I have been a biologist for a long time, and I hope I never stop getting shivers in my spine when I think about the beauty of how we come to know things in biology. Biologists make predictions, then they go out into the field or the lab to see if their predictions hold up. When hundreds of predictions of this sort are fulfilled, a theory reaches the point where it becomes certain, at least on a broad level. And that is where we are with evolution.
-- Darrel R. Falk

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
How long does getting thin take?
As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.
Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.
So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
Building a solid organ like the liver in the lab is different and harder than with an organ like the bladder because solid organs are very vascular.
Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.
So if there were a container of contaminated urine, and somehow it managed to find its way to someplace a lot of damage could be done. Someone comes up to a lab worker. He knows heâ€™s got the urine. â€˜How would you like to have a million dollars?â€™ â€¦ Such things have been known to happen.

Darrel R. Falk famous quotes

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