"Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of life itself."

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Source : 1988 What Mad Pursuit, ch.5.

Francis Crick

#Life Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Molecules Quotes

“I have a thing: I will always put money in for any street musician anywhere in the country, anywhere in the world. It's like giving back the money I got.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as well as in chemistry, physics and astronomy have kept within the bounds of mechanistic interpretation, we geneticists should rejoice, even with our noses on the grindstone (which means both eyes on the objectives), that we have at command an additional means of testing whatever original ideas pop into our heads.”
“I'm not homophobic at all and I have a lot of gay friends.”
“I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.”
“Other men have said, "If I could only live, I would establish and perpetuate an empire." This Christ of Galilee says, "My death shall do it." Other martyrs have died in simple fidelity to truth. This martyr dies that He may make His truth mighty over all hearts. He was a man; but was He only a man?”

Source : Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”
“When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.”

Source : Maggie Kuhn, Christina Long, Laura Quinn (1991). “No stone unturned: the life and times of Maggie Kuhn”
“Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere”
“If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.”

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