Quotes About Hela Cells

#1. I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.

Rebecca Skloot

#2. The so highly acclaimed "dominion of man over nature" turned out to be merely an enormous capability to kill.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#3. We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.

Anne Carson

#4. I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.

Michael Bergin

#5. I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.

John Steinbeck

#6. At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from 'the bush' could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

Elizabeth Kenny

#7. When the Americans advance, we harass and retreat, fire from new positions and then retreat again. If the attacking force is too big, we call for support.

Muqtada Al Sadr

#8. I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.

Ralph Steadman

#9. Isn't art about breaking rules, about challenging existing systems, isn't it about discovering meaning in things or situations before others see anything in them??

Peter Lindbergh

#10. A good life is the result of a thousand small choices and so is a bad one.

Karina Bliss

#11. In the past, it was known as a "massive stroke," and you simply died. But improved resuscitation techniques have now prolonged and refined the agony.

Jean-Dominique Bauby

#12. Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them white. And they did so on the same campus - and at the very same time - that state officials were conducting the infamous Tuskegee syphilis studies.

Rebecca Skloot

#13. With every step, I cursed the person who had ever invented the saying: "Speak of the devil". Clearly, they had no sympathy for me!

Adele Rose

#14. Wine and tobacco destroy the individuality. After a cigar or a glass of vodka you are no longer Peter Sorin, but Peter Sorin plus somebody else. Your ego breaks in two: you begin to think of yourself in the third person.

Anton Chekhov

#15. Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.

Rebecca Skloot

#16. It is kind of nice to have a common purpose.

Paul Wolfowitz

#17. Henrietta's were different: they reproduced an entire generation every twenty-four hours, and they never stopped. They became the first immortal human cells ever grown in a laboratory.

Rebecca Skloot