Germ Quotes

101 quotes by 83 authors

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to… — Albert Einstein
Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides-that of the breeder, the experimenter, the statistician, the physiologist,… — Edwin Conklin
The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on… — Roger Wicker
Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater… — G. Stanley Hall
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work. — Berthold Auerbach
The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the… — Giuseppe Mazzini
To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were)… — Edmund Burke
Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything… — George Eliot
Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner, quickly, often ironically.… — Elizabeth Hardwick
Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts.… — Christian Lous Lange
In the week before a race, I try to stay away from germ areas. I keep disinfectant wipes in my bag for when I have… — Paula Radcliffe
As soon as you get off stage, that's the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to… — Anita Baker
A bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always start with the germ of an idea. — Evan Esar
Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding that of any… — Abraham Lincoln
There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me of a North… — Bharati Mukherjee
The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like epidemics, through contamination by invisible… — Arthur Koestler
Wilderness is a necessity ... They will see what I meant in time. There must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls. Food… — John Muir
Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until… — Emma Goldman
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner… — Norman Douglas
Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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