Cech Quotes

#1. If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about.

Thomas R. Cech

#2. I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.

Thomas R. Cech

#3. I have two things going for me. The first is the fidelity to my principles, and the other is my ability to show up for the fight every day. Period that.

Ron Dellums

#4. Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism.

Simon Mainwaring

#5. We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.

Thomas R. Cech

#6. Those who are ready for the transformation can do it anywhere and those who are not ready cannot do it wherever they are.

Anonymous

#7. God has created you because he loved you. He loved you so much that he could not resist the temptation to create you. When

Osho

#8. That is a mystery that has disturbed rulers all over the world - how the people know. It disturbs the invaders now, I am told, how news runs through censorships, how the truth of things fights free of control. It is a great mystery." The

John Steinbeck

#9. The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West ... But Christ came to bring about reconciliation and peace.

Billy Graham

#10. That, my dear, is a mystery to be solved.

Iris Blobel

#11. There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it.

Thomas R. Cech

#12. I don't want ta hear that kinda dirty talk comin' from you."
"What, fanny? Fanny fanny fanny!

Kami Garcia

#13. Don't try to touch the love, it may burn, just try feel it with your heart.

Debasish Mridha

#14. The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.

Thomas R. Cech

#15. Four months in the life of a seventeen-year-old is the stuff of swings and roundabouts; ... Never again in your life do you possess the capacity for such total personality overhaul.

Zadie Smith

#16. Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.

Thomas R. Cech

#17. Progress is the only road going there.

T Jay Taylor

#18. I try to rediscover why that object exists at all, and why one should take the trouble to reconsider It. I don't consider the technical or commercial parameters so much as the desire for a dream that humans have attempted to project onto an object.

Philippe Starck