"We have come a long way on that…" — Lewis Thomas
"We have come a long way on that old molecule DNA."
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130 Quotes by Lewis Thomas
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When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that…
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Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off…
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The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages…
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I cannot think of a single field in biology or medicine in which we can claim genuine understanding, and it…
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Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of…
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I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea…
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I do not understand modern physics at all, but my colleagues who know a lot about the physics of very…
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It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and…
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The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological…
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It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science…
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It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail…
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Chemical waste products are the droppings of science.
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More Dna Quotes
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one of 328 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I've always belonged to the street, and I always will. It's in my DNA.
— Javier Bardem
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The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security…
— Dave Barry
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I need to have my hands on the DNA of a film.
— Kathryn Bigelow
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The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary…
— Jacques Monod
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And now the announcement of Watson and Crick about DNA. This is for me the real proof of the existence…
— Salvador Dali
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[Professor Pauling] confesses that he had harboured the feeling that sooner or later he would be the one to get…
— Linus Pauling
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I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments…
— Linus Pauling
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I think she [Rosalind Franklin] was a good experimentalist but certainly not of the first rank. She was simply not…
— Francis Crick
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We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is…
— Richard Dawkins
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If Watson and I had not discovered the [DNA] structure, instead of being revealed with a flourish it would have…
— Francis Crick
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The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.
— Lewis Thomas
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The greatest wisdom is in simplicity. Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It's not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge…
— Carlos Barrios
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