"Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality."

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Source : "Funding above and beyond scientific research". Interview with Holger Breithaupt, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. September 15, 2001.

Thomas Cech

#Biology Quotes #Breakthrough Quotes #Phenomenon Quotes

“Did Mad freakin' Max just call me irritating?”
“Everything you need to know about a customer has been written by them or about them. And it lives on the Internet. All you have to do is uncover it. And use it.”
“I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.”
“Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.”
“Have you ever felt that there was something going on in life that not everyone was aware of?”
“I went to high school in Texas for one year, my senior year. My parents wanted me to get out of Stockholm because I was running with the wrong crew. They wanted me to get back to my roots.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.”
“O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.”

Source : Fanny Fern (1986). “Ruth Hall and Other Writings”, p.221, Rutgers University Press

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