Drosophila Melanogaster Quotes & Sayings

the way he could walk straight into a party full of people they didn't know and stick his hand out to a stranger and say, "I'm Nick. This is my wife, Alice." It was as though he had an amazing skill, like playing a complicated musical instrument, that Alice could never hope to master. — Liane Moriarty

And as we lingered in our intimate embrace, I knew that if I could freeze time right this second, I would. — Courtney Cole

Miles was ... the thing is, he was afflicted with a severe birth injury. He grew up pretty much crippled, so he poured all his frustrated energy into his intellect. Since the Vorkosigan family motto might as well be, Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving, the effect was pretty frightening. And it worked for him, so he did it some more. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Do console your poor friend, who is so troubled to see his paintings so miserable, so sad, next to the radiant nature he has before his eyes! — Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

I'm not that into reading. If I'm gonna read, I'm gonna read some cool sci-fi book or something, not some stupid self-help book. — Jon Heder

importantly Lucy's past, and I envision — Patricia Cornwell

For some must watch, while some must sleep
So runs the world away — William Shakespeare

In systemic searches for embryonic lethal mutants of Drosophila melanogaster we have identified 15 loci which when mutated alter the segmental patterns of the larva. These loci probably represent the majority of such genes in Drosophila. The phenotypes of the mutant embryos indicate that the process of segmentation involves at least three levels of spatial organization: the entire egg as developmental unit, a repeat unit with the length of two segments, and the individual segment. — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Anything imagined can be made real ... given sufficient genius. — Brian Herbert

This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends. — Aeschylus

You always know the creative because it is revealed openly. Concealment betrays the existence of another force entirely. — Frank Herbert