Quotes For Handing Over Ceremony

#1. I finished my Ph.D. at Berkeley in November 1987 and took a position as an independent fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in January 1988.

Carol W. Greider

#2. The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is a difficult one for most people to maintain; indeed, the science of one generation has already become the tradition of the next

Bertrand Russell

#3. But Harry wondered if he might be getting too old for the dispiriting adventure that seemed to inevitably accompany the need for human contact.

Hanif Kureishi

#4. An OBE is what you get if you clean the toilets well at King's Cross station.

Michael Winner

#5. Protect the ocean and you protect yourself.

Jean-Michel Cousteau

#6. He who is ready to die for his country is a fool. For he didn't choose where he was born; and where he was born didn't choose him.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#7. Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

George Bernard Shaw

#8. We live in the tension between neophillia, or attraction to new things, and neophobia, or fear of new things.

Jonathan Haidt

#9. I just meant maybe you could set here and drink one of em with me.
He squinted at her. You ever notice how women have trouble takin no for a answer? I think it
starts about age three.
What about men?
They get used to it. They better.

Cormac McCarthy

#10. I don't personally consider myself Dr. Doom. I call myself Dr. Realist, even though it's less exciting and more boring than being called Dr. Doom. If you are consistently saying 'the world is going to end,' who is going to listen to you?

Nouriel Roubini