Millionths Quotes & Sayings

I drank through the buzz of befuddlement into perfect clarity and out again into the blissful confusion of true intoxication. — John Mole

Sometimes not punishing your enemy is the best strategy. What they will do to themselves, after experiencing your mercy, is much more effective. — Sarah Noffke

They parade for us
In zoos - in portraits
Of every generation. — Abigail George

When chemists artificially produce an amino acid or a sugar they almost always synthesize only a single product at a time, which they manage by carefully controlling the experimental conditions for the selected reaction, such as temperature and the concentrations of the various ingredients, to optimize the synthesis of their target compound. This is not an easy task and requires careful control of many different conditions inside customized flasks, condensers, separation columns, filtration devices and other elaborate chemical apparatus. Yet every living cell in your body is continually synthesizing thousands of distinct biochemicals within a reaction chamber filled with just a few millionths of a microliter of fluid.*7 How do all those diverse reactions proceed concurrently? And how is all this molecular action orchestrated within a microscopic cell? These questions are the focus of the new science of systems biology; but it is fair to say that the answers remain mysterious! — Johnjoe McFadden

If your dog should be dead, I'm gonna love you instead. — George Harrison

The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you. — Eric Allin Cornell

A leader can only be free to lead his team if he keeps abreast of all that is happening around him - in real time. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure. — Mortimer Adler

It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. — Daniel Defoe

There's a ton of amazing music that's not getting heard. — A-Trak

Humans don't just kill to survive. Sometimes, they kill out of rage. And they don't just eat to survive; sometimes, they eat when their belly is already full. They are violent and greedy. They aren't like any of the other beasts in the forest; they want to own it all. — Mark Van Steenwyk