Algoza Quotes & Sayings

During the time that Landsteiner gave me an education in the field of immunology, I discovered that he and I were thinking about the serologic problem in very different ways. He would ask, What do these experiments force us to believe about the nature of the world? I would ask, What is the most. simple and general picture of the world that we can formulate that is not ruled by these experiments? I realized that medical and biological investigators were not attacking their problems the same way that theoretical physicists do, the way I had been in the habit of doing. — Linus Pauling

The availability of cheap effective lighting alone, following Thomas Edison's invention of the incandescent bulb in 1879, greatly extended the range of waking human consciousness, effectively adding more hours onto the day - for work, for entertainment, for study, for discovery, for consumption. Subsequently, one development led to another, and to yet another, fueled by a corporate economy in developed nations, and then later by the arms race, and then the space race, as human ambition literally outgrew the planet. It seemed that there was no limit on what humanity could achieve. But there was a flaw at the heart of that expansive optimism - namely, that humanity cannot exist as a thing apart from nature; it has no destiny but annihilation apart from the land that gave it birth. — Clark Strand

I don't have kind memories of you, Raffe, in case you'd forgotten. After all this time, you show up in my life again with no warning. Making demands. Insulting me by flaunting your human toy in my presence. Why should I do this for you instead of sounding the alarm and letting everybody know you had the nerve to come back? — Susan Ee

If the truth is with you, no power can knock you down! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I have spent much of my studies searching for the right question by which I might fully understand the breach between the world and me. I have not spent my time studying the problem of 'race' - 'race' itself is just a restatement and retrenchment of the problem. You see this from time to time when some dullard - usually believing himself white - proposes that the way forward is a grand orgy of black and white, ending only when we are all beige and thus the same 'race.' But a great number of 'black' people are already beige. And the history of civilization is littered with dead 'races' (Frankish, Italian, German, Irish) later abandoned because they no longer serve their purpose - the organization of people beneath, and beyond, and the umbrella of rights. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Actors are excused from a lot of things, and we get away with a lot ... I find it equally interesting and exciting as it is disgusting and bizarre. — Joel Edgerton

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties. — Thomas E. Mann

Conflict begins at the moment of birth. — Jean Baker Miller

Let others know you possessed a secret, and some would work to learn it; that was a fact of nature. — Robert Jordan

Increasingly developing countries are asking for aid to help deal with the consequences of climate change, which we don't want to give. — Elizabeth Kolbert

I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist. — Albert Einstein

Every 30 seconds a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement, — Anthony Atala

You are a coward." Stephen headed for the door. "If you lose her, it won't be because of this citizenship writ or all of the things she has to give up to be your wife. It won't be because you're some magnanimous chap who freed the bird who wanted to fly. It will be because you're afraid." He eased open the door. "And that will mark your reign for the rest of your life. — Rachel Hauck