#specimen

When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham - like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle. ↗

— Thelma Ritter

#around #bottle #broadway #come #couple

It is good to know what you are doing. The man with his pickled fish has set down one truth and has recorded in his experience many lies. The fish is not that color, that texture, that dead, nor does he smell that way. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#specimen-collection #experience

I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. ↗

— John James Audubon

#body #eight #had #hands #i

I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species. ↗

— George Bentham

#began #between #carelessly #collected #dry

I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#complete #different #east #found #guess

In our case, finding a Lucy is unique. No one will ever find another Lucy. You can't order one from a biological supply house. It's a unique discovery, a unique specimen. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#biological #case #discovery #ever #find

To be physically fit is just a small aspect. You can be a beautiful physical specimen, but you're empty as far as what it takes to be a person, and that shows up real fast. ↗

— Lee Haney

#aspect #beautiful #empty #far #fast

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother. ↗

— Russell Baker

#classic #grandmother #guidance #his #his way

The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#company #confess #desire #does #having

Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#gravity #how #like #mars #measure