Scientific Names Quotes

#1. I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

W.S. Gilbert

#2. Travel' is the name of a modern disease which became rampant in themid-fifties and is still spreading. The disease - its scientific name is travelitis furiosus - is carried by a germ called prosperity.

George Mikes

#3. We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution. There is not a single area that you can name that is now seen as it was seen a hundred years ago. Nothing is left of the world view of one hundred years ago.

Terence McKenna

#4. In for the boil, might as well steam.

Gail Carriger

#5. If you were to ask me what I couldn't do without, it would be sashimi.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

#6. I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.

Mark Haddon

#7. There is only the here and now. The past is gone, forgotten.

Tom Robinson

#8. It is all falling indelibly into the past.

Don DeLillo

#9. Sydney was an efficient person, and that extended to showers as well. Me? You could have conducted full demolition and remodeling in the time it took me to shower.

Richelle Mead

#10. Scientific thought does not mean thought about scientific subjects with long names. There are no scientific subjects. The subject of science is the human universe; that is to say, everything that is, or has been, or may be related to man.

William Kingdon Clifford

#11. The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock.

David Cronenberg

#12. Okay, so, you know that photo shoot Parker did a while back?" "The one where he wore the earth's luckiest pair of jeans?" "Are you lusting after the object of my affections? Because that's going to make this conversation even more incredibly uncomfortable.

Ashlyn Kane

#13. People tend not to disassociate the technological issues from pure scientific research, so that science sometimes gets a bad name for things that science doesn't deserve having a bad name for.

George Coyne

#14. My brands are an extension of me. They're close to me. It's not like running GM, where there's no emotional attachment.

Jay-Z

#15. Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What he did, like Harvey, was to recognize its existence and subject it to scientific study.

Max Lerner

#16. Who are we without our memories?

Marta Acosta

#17. A failed experiment can be more important than a trivial design

Verner Panton

#18. A society remotely worth its salt eventually has to come to grips with the barbarism practiced upon helpless creatures in the name of scientific experimentation, tastier/tenderer meat, or more and larger eggs!

William Kunstler

#19. Time when learning how to learn (and unlearn) is central to success. Instead of hiding from change, let's embrace it. Each time we try something new, we get better at getting better. Experience builds competence and confidence, so we're ready for the big changes, like re-thinking what we do.

Peter Morville

#20. If I could have been a cowgirl, I might have never written a word.

Carolyn Haines

#21. Scientific studies about relationships fascinate me, and I devour them hungrily, especially when they give big, fancy-sounding names to everyday experiences.

Jenna McCarthy

#22. Time can also be a place ... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.

Frank Herbert

#23. I tracked your cellphone, Anastasia.

E.L. James

#24. Khem was an ancient name for the land of Egypt; and both the words alchemy and chemistry are a perpetual reminder of the priority of Egypt's scientific knowledge.

Manly Hall