Cells Quotes
1020 quotes by 741 authors
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We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which were cooked in…
— Norman Mailer
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This is only one step in a much larger project. I discovered (no, not me: my team) the function of sugar nucleotides in cell metabolism.…
— Luis Federico Leloir
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As was predicted at the beginning of the Human Genome Project, getting the sequence will be the easy part as only technical issues are involved.…
— Sydney Brenner
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Embryonic stem cell research is at the leading edge of a series of moral hazards.
— George W. Bush
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I remember vividly my student days, spending hours at the light microscope, turning endlessly the micrometric screw, and gazing at the blurred boundary which concealed…
— Albert Claude
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I was very tiny...I spent most of my time stuffed into lockers. Thank god for cell phones, or I'd still be there.
— Chris Colfer
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I have 5 teenage daughters, and I learned the hard way - it's difficult to talk to any person under the age of 25 without…
— Marc Ostrofsky
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My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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We have always underestimated the cell...The entire cell can be viewed as a factory that contains an elaborate network of interlocking assembly lines, each of…
— Bruce Alberts
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The elementary parts of all tissues are formed of cells in an analogous, though very diversified manner, so that it may be asserted, that there…
— Theodor Schwann
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If you want to know how many prison cells to build, look at the number of third graders who can't read.
— Mary Landrieu
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The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. Its billions of nerve cells - called neurons - lie in a tangled web that displays cognitive powers…
— William Allan
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The human brain is the last, and greatest, scientific frontier. It is truly an internal cosmos that lies contained within our skulls. The more than…
— Unknown Author
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Made up of a dozen billion microscopic nerve-cell units interconnected by millions upon millions of conducting nerve-threads weaving incredibly intricate patterns, the brain, as an…
— Unknown Author
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The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100 billion neurons. Although…
— Gerald Fischbach
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The human brain is estimated to have about a hundred billion nerve cells, two million miles of axons, and a million billion synapses, making it…
— Tim Green
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The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but it is composed…
— David H. Hubel
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Among the millions of nerve cells that clothe parts of the brain there runs a thread. It is the thread of time, the thread that…
— Wilder Penfield
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With its hundred billion nerve cells, with their hundred trillion interconnections, the human brain is the most complex phenomenon in the known universe - always,…
— Steven Rose
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The brain seems to be made up of a bewildering complexity of parts, and the cells within the parts seem to be characterized by an…
— Unknown Author
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