Gajdusek Quotes

#1. My father was a research doctor at the National Institutes of Health in the early 1980s, and you couldn't work in the field and not know about D. Carleton Gajdusek, who my father often mentioned.

Hanya Yanagihara

#2. In New Guinea, they had a disease called kuru, transmitted by eating the brains of their enemies." "That's not true." "Gajdusek won a Nobel Prize for it. They were eating brains, all right.

Michael Crichton

#3. It was like she'd been deserted on an island, hadn't seen another human being in ten years and was beside herself with joy that she finally had more than a coconut to talk to.

Kristen Ashley

#4. By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.

Vinton Cerf

#5. Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult.

Michel Houellebecq

#6. The rain was pouring down again. The wind came in fitful gusts. The depressing sound of the pattering rain nearly drove them mad. By

Agatha Christie

#7. I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

Bil Keane

#8. A converted man will not wish to go to heaven alone

J.C. Ryle

#9. The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.

Daniel D. Palmer

#10. Ever since the infamous quiz show scandals of the 1950s, the feds had insisted that TV game shows be honest - or that at least they didn't cheat. So as a 'Dating Game' bachelor, I didn't know what I was going to be asked. The other bachelors and I were required to concoct our answers in real time.

Seth Shostak

#11. You cannot, for instance, sustainably protect the environment if the majority of the people are still in primitive agriculture leading to the encroachment of forest reserves.

Yoweri Museveni

#12. If God is Trinity and Jesus is the face of God, then it is a benevolent universe. God is not someone to be afraid of, but is the Ground of Being and on our side.

Richard Rohr

#13. It was a strange experience to be looking out the window of an eighteenth-century Chinese house at a seventeenth-century colonial graveyard full of people in twenty-first-century Halloween costumes. Salem, guys.

J.W. Ocker

#14. Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.

Robert Kiyosaki

#15. Each wave of sightings adds to the accumulation of reports which defy analysis by present methods ... An investigative process in depth is necessary here if, after twenty years of confusion, we want some answers.

J. Allen Hynek

#16. Good sex scene is about the exchange of emotions, not bodily fluids

Diana Gabaldon

#17. THE SECOND SPEAKER, ANITA SALTMARCHE, focused specifically on studies of light therapy used for traumatic brain injury, stroke, and depression.

Norman Doidge