"In systemic searches for embryonic lethal mutants of Drosophila melanogaster we have identified 15 loci which when mutated alter the segmental patterns of the larva. These loci probably represent the majority of such genes in Drosophila. The phenotypes of the mutant embryos indicate that the process of segmentation involves at least three levels of spatial organization: the entire egg as developmental unit, a repeat unit with the length of two segments, and the individual segment."

-- Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

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“I did miss the music a bit - but only in the wings, when I was waiting to go on. It seemed dreadfully quiet, rather unnerving. But the wonderful thing was that one didn't have to be quite so obsessive about one's health, and one's voice.”

Source : "Show Girl". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2000.
“Once I was gone for a month and I was just miserable, so I flew back from Florida for two hours just to be home and see my cats.”
“If you claim to be a follower of Christ, I encourage you to consider your present commitment to a local church.”
“Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.”

Source : Irving Layton (1969). “The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes”
“You can never win as a sight-seer. Somebody else, more often than not the first person you meet when you get back home, has been there before you.”
“I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.”

Source : The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.
“These ... tables (values of trignometric functions), constructed by means of new techniques based principally on the calculus of differences, are one of the most beautiful monuments ever erected to science.”
“I know of no condition worse than that of the man who has little or no light on the supreme religious questions, and who at the same time is making no effort to come to the light.”

Source : Enoch Fitch Burr (1871). “Ad Fidem; Or, Parish Evidences of the Bible”, p.53

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