George Emil Palade Quotes

#1. We finally understand in general terms how a cell is organized, how its specialized organs function in a well integrated manner to insure its survival and replication.

George Emil Palade

#2. Optimization implies that we already know how to do something but that we now need to improve it. Innovation implies that we don't know how to do something, and searching for that knowledge is paramount.

Jim Highsmith

#3. Mackay's Moral: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.

Harvey MacKay

#4. Since my high school years, I have been interested in history, especially in Roman history, a topic on which I have read rather extensively. The Latin that goes with this kind of interest proved useful when I had to generate a few terms and names for cell biology.

George Emil Palade

#5. After World War I, while France and other Allies were building military defenses modeled on trench warfare, German commanders were shaping a nimble fighting force.

Charles Duhigg

#6. He had a toughness about him, and his five grand Savile Row suit did little to hide the fact that he worked out regularly. He looked like someone who could've gone either way, the mob or something legitimate, and somehow ended up in the middle as a lawyer.

Dave Zeltserman

#7. They could play married, both happy and unhappy, like no other acting couple have ever played married. They're the Lunts of the American marriage movie.

Jeanine Basinger

#8. My aloneness had never bothered me; I hadn't even been aware of it. But now it overwhelmed me. The awareness washed over me with painful sharpness and deep grief. Now that I had company.

Linda Olsson

#9. There's no relief, really, for me. I have relief after the Super Bowl. I set a goal to win the Super Bowl and that's where I'm going with it.

Donovan McNabb

#10. My father, Emil Palade, was professor of philosophy, and my mother, Constanta Cantemir-Palade, was a teacher. The family environment explains why I acquired early in life great respect for books, scholars and education.

George Emil Palade

#11. For a scientist, it is a unique experience to live through a period in which his field of endeavour comes to bloom - to be witness to those rare moments when the dawn of understanding finally descends upon what appeared to be confusion only a while ago - to listen to the sound of darkness crumbling.

George Emil Palade

#12. It was the unexpected that happened, always.

William Maxwell

#13. All I wanted was to be a regional-theater actor, to be in a company. I thought it would be a great life. I don't think I understood how difficult it would be.

Julianne Moore

#14. My experience of people is that they are infinitely forgivable.

Paul Bettany

#15. A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.

Tamra Davis

#16. The bank told us we ought to sell this house to pay off our overdraft. Riders saved the day. I was so pleased when it got to number one, I went all around the fields crying and crying.

Jilly Cooper

#17. My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#18. From what I could tell, whenever an archangel or a burning bush turns up, it's generally not to say, 'Hey, go out and have a happy and uncomplicated life.' (p. 205, Highway to Hell).

Rosemary Clement-Moore

#19. In the early 1950s, during the near avalanche of discoveries, rediscoveries, and redefinitions of subcellular components made possible by electron microscopy, those prospecting in this newly opened field were faced with the problem of what to do with their newly acquired wealth.

George Emil Palade