Johannsen Quotes

#1. Eustasia Johannsen was ready. Anyone could see that. Everything about her ancient self gave evidence to it: Her skin, wrinkled and transparent ... But mainly, it was her eyes. They were drawn into her face as if her memories occupied more of her sight than what was actually in front of her.

Clare Vanderpool

#2. So in 1910 a Danish botanist, Wilhelm Johannsen, self-consciously invented the word gene.

James Gleick

#3. Never put a razor inside your nose - even as a joke.

Jake Johannsen

#4. Yes. I didn't think there were any witnesses, so I guess I'll have to kill you too.

Jake Johannsen

#5. The best gift you can give me is a book.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. The science of genetics is in a transition period, becoming an exact science just as the chemistry in the times of Lavoisier, who made the balance an indispensable implement in chemical research.

Wilhelm Johannsen

#7. A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. If love was easy, there would be almost no music.

Jake Johannsen

#9. From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory emotions an expansion of consciousness by identificatory processes of various kinds.

Arthur Koestler

#10. Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain.

Ed Miliband

#11. People honk at you if you meditate at the stop light.

Jake Johannsen

#12. A lady came up to me on the street and pointed at my suede jacket. 'You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?' she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, 'I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have kill you too.

Jake Johannsen

#13. In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.

Galileo Galilei

#14. Against my will, my fate,
A throne unsettled, and an infant state,
Bid me defend my realms with all my pow'rs, And guard with these severities my shores.

Niccolo Machiavelli