Quote by Marianne Moore Download Open image ““Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.”” — Marianne Moore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Words belong in contexts, not pegged out like biological specimens.” — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“the written word is a recent invention that has left no trace in our genome and must be laboriously acquired throughout childhood and beyond.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“With DNA as with words, the sequence carries the meaning. Dissolve DNA into its constituent bases, and it turns into a primordial four-letter alphabet… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“The structure of the human genome can thus be likened to a sentence that reads- This......is the......str...uc......ture...,,,...of...your...(...gen...ome...)... - where the words correspond to the… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“We are just collections of DNA optimized for particular places and times.” — Project Itoh Copy Share Image
“The tightness of genetic linkage, in short, was a surrogate for the physical proximity of genes on chromosomes: by measuring how often two features-blond-hairedness… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Introns are not the exception in human genes; they are the rule. Human introns are often enormous-spanning several hundreds of thousands of bases of… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“It is the impulse of science to understand nature, and the impulse of technology to try to manipulate it. Recombinant DNA had pushed genetics… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection,handed down from generation to generation,carried,literally,in the bodies of my ancestors.” — Bryan Sykes Copy Share Image
One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Victory won't come to me unless I go to it; a grape tendril ties a knot in knots till knotted thirty times — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
“Do the poet and scientist not work analogously? Both are willing to waste effort. To be hard on himself is one ...of the main… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
