#is

This time at Birmingham turned me into a general biologist, and ever since then I have always tried to take a biological approach to any research project that I have undertaken. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#any #approach #biological #biologist #birmingham

My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were advanced prematurely through the cell cycle and so divided at a reduced cell size. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#analysis #cell #controlling #crucial #cycle

My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#born #chauffeur #cook #county #early

This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#advisable #bothered #could #dark #dismal

Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it. ↗

— Jim Nussle

#accountability #actually #certainly #government #know

I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake. ↗

— Jim Nussle

#anyone #based #believe #candidate #gender

What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time. ↗

— Ed O'Brien

#enjoy #go #had #hadn #incredible

When I walk up on that shore in Florida, I want millions of those AARP sisters and brothers to look at me and say, 'I'm going to go write that novel I thought it was too late to do. I'm going to go work in Africa on that farm that those people need help at. I'm going to adopt a child. It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.' ↗

— Diana Nyad

#africa #brothers #child #dreams #farm

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#greater #his #knowledge #man #more

I was rather disappointed, because the one thing I wanted to gain from that opportunity was to add something to his music, and have him add something to mine. ↗

— Michael Nyman

#because #disappointed #gain #him #his