Maurice Wilkins famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection.
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I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.
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In the time of my parents, before World War One, most people who came to New Zealand from Europe were the more enterprising people; the people who were stronger mentally. It takes a certain amount of imagination to make a life on the other side of the world, the same imagination it takes to climb the tallest mountain.
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DNA is like Midas's gold, everyone who touches it goes mad.
-- Maurice Wilkins
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The environmentalist's dream is an egalitarian society based on: rejection of economic growth, a smaller population, eating lower on the food chain, consuming a lot less, and sharing a much lower level of resources much more equally.
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Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction. The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda.
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Example is leadership.
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If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I'm sure I won't be able to resist coming back and doing it.
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I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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The only people I have been able to use are those who fought
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Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
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the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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Strip it all down to essentials and draw the hell out of what's left.
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