Hermann Joseph Muller Quotes

#1. The gene as the basis of life.

Hermann Joseph Muller

#2. Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality.

Rajneesh

#3. Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.

Ian McKellen

#4. Natural selection based on the differential multiplication of variant types cannot exist before there is material capable of replicating itself and its own variations, that is, before the origination of specifically genetic material or gene-material.

Hermann Joseph Muller

#5. The central problem of biological evolution is the nature of mutation, but hitherto the occurrence of this has been wholly refractory and impossible to influence by artificial means, although a control of it might obviously place the process of evolution in our hands.

Hermann Joseph Muller

#6. To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer.

Hermann Joseph Muller

#7. If he's ever loved, if he's even been loved. if he even wants to be. But don't we all want to? Even when you think you don't want to,there's this feeling of waiting in the back of your head. Of waiting for that to happen. To know what it's like and to be swept away.

Katy Evans

#8. When you produce and direct your own film you havethe somewhat consoling feeling that the producer will kill for you.

James L. Brooks

#9. Drying a widow's tears is one of the most dangerous occupations known to man.

Dorothy Dix

#10. Every time I come home, and every time before I leave, I invite all my friends and I get hummus from this little shack in Tel Aviv called Baadunas.

Bar Refaeli

#11. Accordingly, the fertility goddess is both mother and virgin, the hetaera who belongs to no man but is ready to give herself to any man.

Erich Neumann

#12. Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.

Meg Whitman

#13. In the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things
love, fashion shows, and revolution.

Jeanine Basinger