Christian de Duve Quotes

I promptly fell in love with scientific research and soon had assigned myself, as a major vocation, the task of elucidating the mechanism of action of the antidiabetic hormone.

Christian de Duve

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveMyselfResearchActionTask

I'm an old school actor in the sense. More and more now, I play myself as I get older. Even as a writer, I never got typecast. I've always bounced from project to project or initiated my own things.

Jim Piddock

MyselfSchoolPlayNowActorMy Own

I never plan a structure. I like surprises. I'm quite disciplined and sit at my desk every day and just write.

Jenny Downham

DayPlanEvery DayDeskNeverWrite

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

Max Beerbohm

RealityFantasySolidShouldBase

We are seeing people of faith being attacked, discriminated against, and losing their jobs because they are speaking out on the marriage issue.

Jeffrey C. Mateer

MarriageFaithLosingPeopleSeeing

Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.

Simon Newcomb

ImpossibleFlightAirInsignificant

Probably the most important reason we are seeing more cancers than before is because the population is ageing overall. And cancer is an age-related disease.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

SeeingImportantMoreReasonCancer

It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.

Tony Snow

MusicMistakeEverythingAnything

When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. - they'll find something.

Douglas Horton

FindLostAskSomething

I exist in agreement with all the weird chaos, destruction, and agony that is undoubtedly part of the texture of being alive.

Arca

ChaosWeirdAliveTextureAgreement

'Lagoon' is an ambitious novel.

Nnedi Okorafor

AmbitiousNovel

A swarm of new business tools coming to phones and desktops near you promise to boost efficiency and streamline collaboration by borrowing social features from the likes of Facebook and Twitter.

Ryan Holmes

BusinessCollaborationToolsYouNew

I am not a woman staying at home.

Juliette Binoche

HomeWomanI AmStayingAm

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