Marshall Nirenberg Quotes & Sayings

There are two kinds of speakers. Those who are nervous and those who are liars. — Mark Twain

Research suggests that the earliest flying reptiles swallowed small pieces of volcanic rock and could breathe out flammable gases like hydrogen produced in their own bodies. It is hypothesized that their ingenious "fire breath" was used as a defense against predatory reptiles. — Karen Shanor

As [William] Valentiner noted in his uncompleted memoirs Remembering Artists, [Diego] Rivera's [Detroit Industry] murals rooted the Detroit Institute of Arts to the many-faceted jewel of its central court because of the harmonious, fertile relationship between "the industrialist" and "the artist." Rivera remarked to Valentiner how especially struck he was that "Edsel had none of the characteristics of the exploiting capitalist, that he had the simplicity and directness of a workman in his won factories and was like one of the best of them." Their relationship was like the murals themselves, a superb expression of pluralism, toleration, and empathy for the other, and of a cosmopolitan sense of all the Americas, not just of the United States of America or Detroit alone. — John Dean

Humans are very imaginative animals. — Susumu Tonegawa

At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd — Walt Whitman

Facts themselves do not give knowledge — Fulton J. Sheen

Unable either to practice science without the Principia or to make that work conform to the corpuscular standards of the seventeenth century, scientists gradually accepted the view that gravity was indeed innate — Thomas S. Kuhn

I have a checkered past. I'll take any eyeliner that comes my way. — Emma Stone

You have to accept yourself, and you have to realize that you're beautiful. — Bethany Mota

Perhaps I should go," Brad noted and Tate didn't release me but his head turned toward Brad.
"You think?" he asked. — Kristen Ashley

I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone. — Najib Mikati

Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all predictions. In the work of art, he finds his uniqueness confirmed. — Ben Shahn

Linguists are no different from any other people who spend more than nineteen hours a day pondering the complexities of grammar and its relationship to practically everything else in order to prove that language is so inordinately complicated that it is impossible in principle for people to talk. — Ronald W. Langacker

Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist. — John Eaton