Elegans Quotes

#1. One of the great things about working on C. elegans was the fact that it was transparent, and so when I first heard that seminar describing GFP, and realised, 'I work on this transparent animal, this is going to be terrific! I'll be able to see the cells within the living animal.'

Martin Chalfie

#2. Mainly I study the sense of touch and what the molecules are that transduce touch. And I use mutants in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to look at that problem.

Martin Chalfie

#3. Our work on C. elegans emphasized the benefits of sharing large amounts of information. We took a global approach to discover the mechanisms that led to the development of the worm.

John Sulston

#4. I know that not all my readers like my digressions, but the research that has been done on Caenorhabditis elegans is such a ringing triumph of science that you aren't going to stop me.

Richard Dawkins

#5. Real artist cannot be blackmailed. I suspect they've been confessing shit all their life.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#6. I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

Lord Byron

#7. If you built the box, you can also break it down.

Gina Greenlee

#8. Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.

Tom Stoppard

#9. Integrity is the light that shines from a disciplined conscience.

James E. Faust

#10. Anyone can design a bridge that stands. It takes an engineer to design a bridge that barely stands.

Anonymous

#11. Expect progress, not perfection.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#12. I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

Rosie O'Donnell

#13. Old Milgrom pauses to console the girl and tells her she's not the only one who's clumsy, that she herself couldn't do anything when she was young - boil an egg or hem a diaper - and then she learned. Life taught her.

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

#14. When your destiny is calling, answer The call.

Jeanette Coron

#15. What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?

Joseph Campbell