"If Watson and I had not discovered the [DNA] structure, instead of being revealed with a flourish it would have trickled out and that its impact would have been far less. For this sort of reason Stent had argued that a scientific discovery is more akin to a work of art than is generally admitted. Style, he argues, is as important as content. I am not completely convinced by this argument, at least in this case."

-- Francis Crick

#Art Quotes #Impact Quotes #Dna Quotes

“In Soviet-Russia the Jew is forging the tool with which he wants to enslave Europe.”

Source : Speech in the Bavarian regional parliament on April 25, 1928. "Kampf dem Weltfeind", Stürmer publishing house, Nuremberg, 1938.
“My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas.”
“There's so much more (to say) about being young and being a woman, but I feel like not a lot of those stories are being told, so you have to grab onto what ever small truths you can find and present it in the most honest way you can.”
“Well, look who I ran into," crowed Coincidence. "Please," flirted Fate, "this was meant to be.”
“For some people, they may categorize it as "gay love". And for me, I simply see it as love. And there's no corner of the universe where love cannot abide and grow.”

Source : Podcast for "The L Word" from ourchart.com, April 2008.
“I don't really think about doing something kind, I think there's just a way to conduct your daily life with compassion to other people.”
“One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.”
“Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.”

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