"As for the presence of large NGF [nerve growth factor] sources in snake venom and male genital organs, they may be conceived as instances of bizarre evolutionary gene expression."

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Source : "The Saga of the Nerve Growth Factor: Preliminary Studies, Discovery, Further Development".

Rita Levi-Montalcini

#Expression Quotes #Snakes Quotes #Growth Quotes

“Burglars know there's more than one way to skin a vault.”
“There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.”
“But the lack of faith could just as well be a crutch for non-believers, allowing them to live their lives without any concept of accountability and giving them some sort of false confidence. The different is that while Catholicism has an abundance of intellectual underpinnings to support its arguments, anti-Catholicism and atheist have few if any.”
“Your stupidity is appalling!" "Most stupidity is!”
“I'm really tall - almost six feet - and my features tend to be extreme, especially on TV.”
“Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They fought not for the sake of fighting but for the sake of winning.”

Source : David Hackett Fischer (2006). “Washington's Crossing”, p.370, Oxford University Press
“If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.”

Source : Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr
“The blame for the 9/11 attacks lays squarely and exclusively with the Al-Qaeda network.”

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