Encoded Genomics Quotes & Sayings

Let me absorb this thing. Let me try to understand it without private barriers. When I have understood what you are saying, only then will I subject it to my own scrutiny and my own criticism This is the finest of all critical approaches and the rarest. — John Steinbeck

What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away. — Carl Sagan

The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter. — Benjamin Disraeli

Fer in our dreams we find ourselves. Who we were. Who we are. Who we can become. Sleep. Dream. — Moira Young

A Grandmother is a safe haven. — Suzette Haden Elgin

What's the matter? What's the antimatter? Does it antimatter? — Wes "Scoop" Nisker

Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But if there was one thing she'd learned in the past few weeks, it was that sometimes, when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map. — Sarah Addison Allen

Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats? — Steven Pinker

One knows, when all one's life one has walked in dangerous places, when the silence is that of ambush and when the silence is that of emptiness. — Dorothy Dunnett

You cannot tame a dragon with a history lesson. — George R R Martin

Everything you need God already is. — Priscilla Shirer

Ed, it was everything, those nights on the phone, everything we said until late became later and then later and very late and finally to go to bed with my ear warm and worn and red from holding the phone close close close so as not to miss a word of what it was, because who cared how tired I was in the humdrum slave drive of our days without each other. I'd ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you, and I did. But that's why right there it was doomed. We couldn't only have the magic nights buzzing through the wires. We had to have the days, too, the bright impatient days spoiling everything with their unavoidable schedules, their mandatory times that don't overlap, their loyal friends who don't get along, the unforgiven travesties torn from the wall no matter what promises are uttered past midnight, and that's why we broke up. — Daniel Handler

Without a doubt, rowing is the hardest thing you can attempt to lean in a short period of time. — Eric Bana