"Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects of their interest, but not to touch them; the cell was as distant from us, as the stars and galaxies were from them."

-- Albert Claude

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“Outing is a nasty word for telling the truth.”
“Exactly this type of people like you, at the beginning you're gonna be shy but later on you're gonna jump on a chair and you will scream hit him!”
“Because I grew up trapped in the suburbs 8 miles outside of D.C. and I've never seen what people who live in D.C. look like.”
“Believers do not surrender. They can continue on their way to the truth because they are certain that God has created them "explorers", whose mission is to leave no stone unturned, though the temptation to doubt is always there. Leaning on God, they continue to reach out, always and everywhere, for all that is beautiful, good, and true.”
“What was said by the Latin poet of labor--that it conquers all things--is much more true when applied to impudence.”
“Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.”
“I've always wanted to work for, like, "Assume your audience is cleverer than you," rather than the other way around.”
“Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.”

Source : Ian Fleming (1962). “The Spy who Loved Me”

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