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Quote by Max Delbruck

“Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.”

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Max Delbrück was a renowned biologist known for his contributions to genetics and molecular biology. His research in the mid-20th century had a profound impact on the field of genetics, particularly in the areas of DNA replication and gene mutation. Delbrück's work not only advanced scientific knowledge but also laid the foundation for subsequent developments in genetic engineering and biotechnology. more

“[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others; and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit.”

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Book:The Works of Anton Chekhov

Source: The Works of Anton Chekhov

“[The natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.”

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Author:E. O. Wilson

“A book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book, — it is a plaything.”

Book Quotations

Author:Thomas Love Peacock

“A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”

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Author:Philibert Joseph Roux

“I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.”

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Book:The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author

“I quote others in order to better express myself.”

Order Quotations

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”

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Author:Seneca the Elder

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.”

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Author:Winston Churchill

“The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.”

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Author:John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

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