Poinar Hendrik Quotes & Sayings

Teeth actually turn out to be one of a couple of good sources of ancient DNA. The teeth, actually the enamel, is quite good at preserving the DNA, so it is a bit of time capsule so to speak. — Hendrik Poinar

Typically, there's a drive in science to do something just to say you've done it. — Hendrik Poinar

I'm a character actor and I get lost in these characters, so I think it's only recently that people have begun to connect dots and go, 'Oh, that's the same person that did this, this, this, this and this!' which I take as a compliment. One time somebody called me an illusionist, and that was the nicest thing anyone has ever said. — Carrie Preston

If we brought the mammoth back to Siberia, maybe that would be good for the ecosystems that are changing because of climate change. — Hendrik Poinar

If I do not procure the edification of those who hear me, I am a sacrilege, profaning God's Word." Edification is central to proper preaching: "For God will have his people edified ... When we come together in the name of God, it is not to hear merry songs and to be fed with wind, that is vain and unprofitable curiosity, but to receive spiritual nourishment. — Michael S. Horton

There were two things I wanted to be: an actor and a hippie. — Dennis Christopher

There's no environment I can think of that would have remained constant enough to preserve dinosaur DNA. — Hendrik Poinar

When I was a young boy, I used to gaze through the microscope of my father at the insects in amber that he kept in the house. And they were remarkably well preserved, morphologically just phenomenal. — Hendrik Poinar

Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague. — Hendrik Poinar

Consistently ask yourself: 'Is what I'm doing right now working for me or working against me? — Marshall Sylver

I'm not sure the Russians would be happy that their iconic wooly mammoth has North American origins. — Hendrik Poinar

I laughed when Steven Spielberg said that cloning extinct animals was inevitable. But I'm not laughing anymore, at least about mammoths. This is going to happen. It's just a matter of working out the details. — Hendrik Poinar

It turns out that there are swaths of habitat in the north of Siberia and Yukon that actually could house a mammoth. Remember, this was a highly plastic animal that lived over tremendous climate variation. — Hendrik Poinar

Scientists have always thought that because mammoths roamed such a huge territory - from Western Europe to Central North America - that North American woolly mammoths were a sideshow of no particular significance to the evolution of the species. — Hendrik Poinar

Once a few Facebook employees put together a promising idea and start a company, that's very exciting to people. I happen to think being a Facebook employee is really correlated with good ideas. — Dustin Moskovitz

The study of evolution is an evolution in itself. — Hendrik Poinar

We know African and Asian elephants can interbreed, and they're separated by 5 million to 6 million years. — Hendrik Poinar

So long as lust, whether of the world or flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God. — Charles Caleb Colton

You can go into caves, and they can maintain constant conditions of temperature and humidity over long periods of time, even though the outside temperature may be way above what it is inside the cave. — Hendrik Poinar

Nuclear DNA encodes all the proteins and enzymes that make you you, basically. — Hendrik Poinar

I have learned that human beings are all about incentives — Harlan Coben

There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme park? — Hendrik Poinar