Specimens Quotes

58 Specimens quotes by 53 unique authors

We sometimes freeze the specimen with liquid nitrogen, which is extremely cold, you know. This is another technique we use now - but the specimens… — Lennart Nilsson
When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham - like a couple of… — Thelma Ritter
There are two specific objections to use of psychedelic drugs.First,use of these drugs may be dangerous.Howev er,every worth-while exploration is dangerous-climb ing mountains,testi ng aircraft,rocket… — Alan Watts
The aim of eugenics is to represent each class or sect by its best specimens; that done, to leave them to work out their common… — Francis Galton
It does not, however, seem impossible that by an attention to breed, a certain degree of improvement, similar to that among animals, might take place… — Thomas Malthus
With its untold depths, couldn't the sea keep alive such huge specimens of life from another age, this sea that never changes while the land… — Jules Verne
I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for… — Cecil Rhodes
The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches… — Thomas Jefferson
Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon,… — John L. Phillips
A sexual athlete is not likely to find sufficient energy for work of another athletic kind, and the acting of great parts most definitely was… — Laurence Olivier
I have in hands, now, specimens of bottom from t he Gulf Stream, obtained by Lieutenant Craven, and I can say that they are among… — Edward Forbes
In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which breeds idleness, of… — Horace Mann
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous… — Angela Davis
Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded with matching genetic… — Jeffrey Kluger
First Ladies have always been held like specimens under a media microscope. — Andre Leon Talley
Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species. — Jack Horner
Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people. — Orson Scott Card
Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All… — Wade Davis
We...we could be friends.' We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not. — Neil Gaiman
My mother is currently associating with some undesirables who are attempting to transform her into an athlete of sorts, deprave specimens of mankind who regularly… — John Kennedy Toole
Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they… — Cormac McCarthy
Many women to whom I have preached the doctrine of freedom have weakly replied, 'But who is to support the children?' It seems to me… — Isadora Duncan
Look at me!" I roar. "Do you think you'll be the first I've killed today? I wasn't a murderer, but you changed me. I'm a… — Darren Shan
I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be… — John Fowles
And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their climate, still unpicked;… — Gavin Douglas

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