Christian de Duve Quotes

Although separating mitochondria and microsomes might appear worlds apart from the determination of the molecular weight of macromolecules, certain concepts were common to the two operations and could be usefully transposed from the latter to the former.

Christian de Duve

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: belgian
  • Birth: October 2, 1917 - May 4, 2013

Topics

DeterminationTwoOperationsCommon

Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.

Jenna Elfman

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I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.

Ani DiFranco

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Well, I think my stand-up is often kind of visual. Not like Carrot Top visual, but visual.

Michael Ian Black

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I was a workaholic, I had food issues, and I had body issues. I was in a lot of pain. My parents didn't recognise what was going on.

Amanda de Cadenet

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Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!

Robert Browning

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I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.

Robin Williams

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When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise.

Mary Frances Berry

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When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image.

Mohsin Hamid

TelevisionHumanImageHuman Being

But that guitar is the perfect companion to the human voice. You rest it against your gut, against your heart, and when you strum it the vibrations go outwards for all to hear, but the vibration also hits you on your body.

Jason Mraz

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If you have a good movie in hand and it is successful, you gain confidence to experiment.

Anushka Shetty

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As far as I'm concerned, ageing is humanity's worst problem, by some serious distance.

Aubrey de Grey

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Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

William Shakespeare

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