Microscopic Quotes

64 quotes by 61 authors

You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius. — Ashley Montagu
By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent… — Yukio Mishima
To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in… — Louis Pasteur
Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if… — Jacques Monod
I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight… — John B. S. Haldane
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… — William Feindel
When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness came to the… — Eugene Wigner
A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Can you think of any problem, in any area of human endeavour, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any… — Albert Allen Bartlett
These microscopic organisms form an entire world composed of species, families and varieties whose history, which has barely begun to be written, is already fertile… — Louis Pasteur
The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic. — Amos Oz
Yet soil is miraculous. It is where the dead are brought back to life. Here, in the thin earthy boundary between inanimate rock and the… — Toby Hemenway
There is a moment in the history of every nation, when . . . the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become… — Marsilio Ficino
In practice it is possible to determine directly the skin colour and hence the ethnic affiliations of the ancient Egyptians by microscopic analysis in the… — Cheikh Anta Diop
Iâ€™m constantly embarrassed. I fidget and twist my hair and pull weird faces and stutter. Some days I feel quite confident, then others thereâ€™s a… — Graham Coxon
One of the reasons they [the Japanese] have bad eyesight is probably these microscopic characters [furigana] which have many lines and strokes to them.& We… — L. Ron Hubbard
Alan Rocke's Image and Reality does so many things vividly and convincingly: it shows how visual images led chemistry step by step to the reality… — Roald Hoffmann
In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck… — Bertrand Russell
We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands,… — Anthony Doerr
The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine,… — Scott Westerfeld

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