Lennart Quotes & Sayings

There is a new way with very very tiny fiber optics, which give an enormous high resolution. There are many many thousand fibers, very very close together with a very small diameter. — Lennart Nilsson

Love is everything. Everything. — Nicola Yoon

And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers. — Lennart Nilsson

I just wanted to win on the road, honestly. I don't remember the road ever being this tough. — Tim Duncan

I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table. — Lennart Meri

What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile. — Jack Kevorkian

In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary. — Lennart Meri

History is more interesting than politics. — Lennart Meri

I've never met a general yet who could milk a cow. — Lennart Meri

The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom. — Clarence Darrow

We sometimes freeze the specimen with liquid nitrogen, which is extremely cold, you know. This is another technique we use now - but the specimens are not alive. — Lennart Nilsson

I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received. — Lennart Meri

If geography is prose, maps are iconography. — Lennart Meri

How many nights are we here?" Cassie asked. "Six? So we need what, 20 bottles? — Gennifer Albin

That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world. — Lennart Meri

That's the new way - with computers, computers, computers. That's the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and, today, I think we have reached the target. — Lennart Nilsson

It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean human reproduction, the human body, nature and so on. To surprise them with a new technique. — Lennart Nilsson

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected. — Adrienne Rich

For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here. — Lennart Nilsson

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another. — Lennart Meri

Unsolicited advice is always self-serving. — Amy Dickinson

I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists. — Lennart Nilsson

Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me. — Lennart Meri

I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream. — Lennart Nilsson

I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know. — Lennart Nilsson

Chocolate Kinder from Germany. My wife is from Germany and once I tasted them I was scared I would have to fight at heavyweight. — Erislandy Lara

Opposite Lennart and Maud lives Alf. He drives a taxi and always wears a leather jacket under a layer of irascibility. — Fredrik Backman

Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave. — Lennart Meri

And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb. — Lennart Nilsson

You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold. — Lennart Nilsson

With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded. — Lennart Meri

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature. — Lennart Meri

So you got fired?"
"I quit."
"When I quit the Order, you told me I was besmirched."
"That's because you quit in a huff over some silliness like trying to save people's lives. I quit to maximize my earning potential. Don't you know being a hero is a losing bet? The pay is shit and people hate you for it." Luther looked at Curran. "Who is the male specimen?"
Curran offered Luther his hand. "Lennart."
Luther grabbed Curran's hand and smelled it. "Shapeshifter, feline, probably a lion, but not the run-of-the-mill African Simba. You've got an odd scent about you." He glanced at me. "Why do you always hang out with weirdos? — Ilona Andrews

The chemistry of love is something which is extremely extremely unbelievable. This is something we have planned for more than two years, so I hope that we are going to start in the beginning of next year. — Lennart Nilsson

The apparel oft proclaims the man — William Shakespeare

Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect. — Lennart Meri

Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique. — Lennart Nilsson

Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't. — Lennart Meri