"Years ago R.N.A. was kind of a bit player in the cell. Now our picture's completely inverted, and we think R.N.A.'s really the important thing."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Jack W. Szostak

#Player Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Cells Quotes

“I like Ministry, but I'm probably never going to make a song that sounds like Ministry.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.”
“We couldn't build quantum computers unless the universe were quantum and computing. We can build such machines because the universe is storing and processing information in the quantum realm. When we build quantum computers, we're hijacking that underlying computation in order to make it do things we want: little and/or/not calculations. We're hacking into the universe.”

Source : "Q&A: Seth Lloyd". Interview with Jason Pontin, www.technologyreview.com. July 1, 2006.
“It struck me that when we read picture books to children, we parents, and people as a whole, do not appear in them very much, and that they are more constructed to be a world of children and animals.”
“Between '89 and '93 I was a wild child, a real nutter.”
“Fate likes to tease paranoids.'”
“The secret to creative freedom is letting go of our habitual certainities.”
“A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.”

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