The French Lieutenant's Woman Science Quotes & Sayings

When I was lecturing recently to a group of cardiologists at the Mayo Clinic I said ...
Why is it that from the moment you enter medical school to the moment you retire, the only disorder that you will ever diagnose with a physics textbook is obesity? This is biology folks, it's endocrinology, it's physiology - physics has nothing to do with it. The laws of thermodynamics are always true, the energy balance equation is irrelevant.
If someone's getting fatter I guarantee you they're taking more energy than they expend (as long as they're getting heavier). And if they're getting leaner I guarantee they're expending more than they're taking in. [It's] given, let's never discuss it again. And if you say it to your patients you're telling them nothing
(University Of Colorado Medical School, May 9th 2013 - via YouTube) — Gary Taubes

Fellow has the wrong clothes and all that. French chap-or Belgian. Queer fellow, but he's got the goods all right. — Agatha Christie

But I think I'm coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood. — Virginia Woolf

They would never know how lucky they had been. For a lifetime, mankind had achieved as much happiness as any race can ever know. It had been the Golden Age. But gold was also the color of sunset, of autumn: and only Karellen's ears could catch the first wailings of the winter storms. — Arthur C. Clarke

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together. — Margaret Thatcher

Silence is what allows people to suffer without recourse, what allows hypocrisies and lies to grow and flourish, crimes to go unpunished. — Rebecca Solnit

Zombies are the real lower-class citizens of the monster world and that's why l like them. — George A. Romero

Whatever a man might do, whatever misery or heartache your children might give you - and they give you a lot - however much your parents irritate you - it doesn't matter because you love them. — Audrey Hepburn

Before I could answer that, I should have to see your soul." "To see — Oscar Wilde