George Palade Quotes

#1. I knew the lysosomes and peroxisomes because I had discovered them; I knew the mitochondria because I was interested in them. I knew the membrane system because my friend, George Palade, had worked on that.

Christian De Duve

#2. The call now is for each of us to ask ourselves: are we doing all we can to help build the country of our dreams?

Nelson Mandela

#3. The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.

Bob Graham

#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. When someone's really good at encapsulating human emotion and putting it out in a form that can reach a variety of people, that's going to have a big effect when he's no longer there.

Albert Hammond Jr.

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.

Stephen Fry

#9. I'm sure that everyone who goes into fashion always dreams of having a perfume, since it completes the brand and exposes it in a different way.

Reem Acra

#10. When people have so much money that they can do anything, buy anything, be anything, then they start to look around for the things money can't buy. Strength, courage, nobility... they see it in others. And they want it.

Lesley Livingston

#11. How difficult it is to realize that one we have always known can really be dead, said Anne,

L.M. Montgomery

#12. Visualize a place that you really love, be there, see the details. Now write about it.

Natalie Goldberg

#13. You are not saved by the plan of salvation. You are saved by the man of salvation.

Adrian Rogers

#14. I realised that you don't have to jump through a series of complicated hoops to achieve a goal.

Paulo Coelho

#15. I always say that I don't believe I'm a chef. I try to be a storyteller.

Jose Andres

#16. Human history is one prolonged and painful limping. We invariably step with one foot on the rock of justice, and with the other, we sink into the mire of deceit and self-delusion.

Danail Hristov

#17. I really believe I know why my designs were better than any other human being, but I don't want to take credit for starting Apple, for turning the world around or anything like that.

Steve Wozniak

#18. 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

#19. 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