Hirofumi Arai Quotes & Sayings

An amino acid residue (other than glycine) has no symmetry elements. The general operation of conversion of one residue of a single chain into a second residue equivalent to the first is accordingly a rotation about an axis accompanied by translation along the axis. Hence the only configurations for a chain compatible with our postulate of equivalence of the residues are helical configurations. — Linus Pauling

Not seek for exactness in all matters alike, but in each according to the subject-matter, and so far as properly belongs to the system. — Aristotle.

The birds are literal representations of the witnesses of those ordinary and big moments, but they are also metaphors for time itself, for the passing of time. It occurred to me, many years after I had been here, thinking about this idea, that every moment we have with one another is really our only moment, and because of that our every moment could potentially be a goodbye, so we have to notice and notice and notice. — David Gianadda

The grass is always greener around the fire hydrant. — Jeff Rich

The only thing to fear is fearlessness. — Michael Stipe