"The principle of [divine] purpose... stares the biologist in the face wherever he looks... The probability for such an event as the origin of DNA molecules to have occurred by sheer chance is just too small to be seriously considered."

-- Ernst Boris Chain

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“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Perhaps the adjective 'elderly' requires definition. In physics, mathematics, and astronautics it means over thirty; in the other disciplines, senile decay is sometimes postponed to the forties. There are, of course, glorious exceptions; but as every researcher just out of college knows, scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept out of the laboratory!”
“Negativity sells. I have been labelled a rebel. If I had been one, would I have got married at 23? Would I have been a straight A student?”

Source : "Successful People Are Targeted; I’m More Careful Now: Sania Mirza". Interview with Sharmistha Chaudhuri, www.hindustantimes.com. November 24, 2013.
“I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff.”
“My beautiful soul,"he murmured and caressed my cheek."When you have the ultimate selfless sacrifice it paid my wrong.You proved to be worthy of my devotion.Of Death's...love.”
“Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.”
“To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.”
“I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes.”

Source : "The Unanswered Question" by David Cairns, www.nytimes.com. May 23, 1976.
“I want you and it will be so, While I have life.”

Source : Cecilia Dart-Thornton (2011). “The Battle of Evernight”, p.621, Pan Macmillan

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