Radioimmunoassay Ria Quotes & Sayings

We don't even know what species are out there, for the most part, particularly when you get down to the microbes and very small invertebrates. They make up the mass of the organisms around us, including the soil we depend on, the soil of cornfields as well as hardwood forests. We haven't taken ecology to the point where we can even make a crude prediction of what's going to happen when we've reduced the living world down to a certain level. — E. O. Wilson

The first telescope opened the heavens; the first microscope opened the world of the microbes; radioisotopic methodology, as examplified by RIA [radioimmunoassay], has shown the potential for opening new vistas in science and medicine — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Survival is a dance between our needs and our consciences. — Neal Shusterman

No one's supposed to be the president. This is not England. And it's not just the Bush family, all families designate each child as having some particular trait. — Fran Lebowitz

Radioimmunoassay (RIA) is simple in principle. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her — J.K. Rowling

What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines. — Ignatius Of Loyola

So well do I love you, I go to my god singing your praises. When I meet my father, I will tell him I fought beside you. — Janet Morris

Was there any woman in the world quite like Nora? He was so glad she existed; even more glad there was only one of her. — Tiffany Reisz

You want to draw your readers into the world you've created, make them feel a part of it, make them forget where they are. And you can't do this effectively if you tell your readers about your world secondhand. You — Renni Browne

Little fictions. That's what her father called them. Not lies, just stories to twist the brain into a new shape, to allow the light to spill in with a different color, to throw rainbows instead of shadows. — Hugh Howey

The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable. — Albert Brooks

My crystal ball or intuition tells me that in the '80s the impact of RIA [radioimmunoassay] on the study of infectious diseases may prove as revolutionary as its impact on endocrinology in the 60s. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears. — Shelby Foote

Writing is an often-painful task that can feel like the death of one's past. Equally discomfiting is seeing one's present commitments to truths crumble once one begins to tap away at the keyboard or scar the page with ink. Writing demands a different sort of apprenticeship to ideas than does speaking. It beckons one to revisit over an extended, or at least delayed, period the same material and to revise what one thinks. Revision is reading again and again what one writes so that one can think again and again about what one wants to say and in turn determine if better and deeper things can be said. — Michael Eric Dyson

At first I followed her deliberately soft voice, which had the timber of a zurna,* and listened to her speech, which resembled embroidery or a string of pearls, words and phrases completely different from those of the townspeople, somewhat withered yet ornate, with the aura of those old chambers and something enduring. — Mesa Selimovic