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Michael Dickinson Quotes

When it first notices an approaching threat, a fly's body might be in any sort of posture depending on what it was doing at the time, like grooming, feeding, walking, or courting. Our experiments showed that the fly somehow 'knows' whether it needs to make large or small postural changes to reach the correct preflight posture.

Michael Dickinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1963

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Time Fly Small Reach Walking Doing

Brooklyn, when I was growing up, was awesome. It was stoopball and stickball - a lot of kids... the baby boom generation were all in the area. It was just a really great place.

Great Baby Growing Up Generation Up

Although important nuclear physics work was to go on in laboratories such as ours had become - and we had to cut down to a lower energy group - it was not fundamentally opening up new insights on the structure of matter. That required you to be in a higher league.

John Henry Carver

Work Energy You Physics Down New

Republicans do not believe in identity politics.

Politics Identity Believe Republicans

I feel no shame getting in bed at nine.

Feel Bed Shame I Feel Nine Getting

The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.

Health Retirement Insurance Mortgage

A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.

Function Writer Set Much Movie

If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.

History Food New York People You Go

Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.

Rest You Director Whatever Leave Up

It's very important, when everyone else seems to be pigeon-holing you, to try and pigeon-hole yourself.

Winston Marshall

Yourself You Important Try Everyone

I've done a lot of guerrilla theater in my time.

Time Done My Time Guerrilla Theater

There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines.

Good Time Ideas Think Search

I had a system at blackjack.

System Blackjack Had

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