Akston Bioscience Quotes & Sayings

You can have all the muskets you want! You can even have assault muskets! ... Their (the NRA's) paranoid fear of a possible dystopic future prevents us from addressing our actual dystopic present. We can't even begin to address 30,000 gun deaths that are actually, in reality, happening in this country every year because a few of us must remain vigilant against the rise of an imaginary Hitler. — Jon Stewart

Nothing great is ever accomplished by following standards. — Geoffroy Birtz

Newness hath an evanescent beauty. — Heinrich Heine

Even now, it was hard for her to believe that he was truly gone. Some nights she would wake in darkness, half-asleep, and for an instant expect to find him there beside her. — George R R Martin

All truth is not to be told at all times. — Samuel Butler

Dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely. — Arthur Golden

A happy mind is also a beautiful universal mind. — Debasish Mridha

Whether I am the younger son or the elder son, God's only desire is to bring me home. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

I started playing in '98, but I got hooked by playing celebrity golf tournaments. Tiger had a lot to do with it - his passion, the way that he plays. He's unique and different, and he inspired a lot of my passion. It's a sport you can't master. If you're an athlete, you can do almost anything, but golf is not like that. — Stuart Scott

The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities. — Anthony Robbins

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is. — August Wilson

You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you. — Billy Tauzin

When you're no one from nowhere it's best to know your limits. Rich kids can play at bohemia, but wealth has long tendrils; it twines into a safety net which can also be a trap for the unprepared. Rich kids have families and backgrounds and connections, and they ask questions, because their world functions on being able to place people. I couldn't expose myself to that. — L.S. Hilton

Where shall I say you've gone?"
She threw an arm about airily. "Oh, way up high. Over the rainbow somewhere, I guess. — Gregory Maguire

So why is it helpful to explore this story, this 'experience' from the point of view of science? Why not just rely on personal experience? Exploring complexity theory allows a direct challenge to the implicit assumptions many people hold that science implies the world is 'mechanical', that it is indeed predictable and controllable. The fact that complexity is a 'new science' has power. Indeed, it reframes science and emphasizes that the only reliable way to investigate the way things are, and certainly the way things change, is through paying attention to the local detail - to the 'minutely organized particulars', as William Blake (1908) called them. — Jean G. Boulton