Selman Waksman Quotes

The discovery of streptomycin as a product of a rather obscure group of microorganisms, the actinomycetes, led to the study of these organisms as potential producers of other chemotherapeutic substances.

Selman Waksman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: russian
  • Birth: July 22, 1888 - August 16, 1973

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An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and to the decent ethic of husbandry those farmers live by. A religious person can oppose factory farming because it is degrading to both man and animal - an offense to God.

Matthew Scully

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I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

Solange Knowles

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Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.

Miguel

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My birth at the end of July 1967 makes me a child of the naksa, or setback, as the Arab defeat during the June 1967 war with Israel is euphemistically known in Arabic.

Mona Eltahawy

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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Not winning a title gives fuel to sportswriters and talking heads who question an athlete's true value.

Don Yaeger

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The days of family entertainment seem to have left us.

Dean Devlin

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I hope that I am out of the music business when I meet God.

Chubby Checker

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Not compromising the music, but there is a way, by just showing the people that you're sincere and honest with what you're doing, and by talking to them.

Chuck Mangione

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I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.

Arthur Capper

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I love community, I love to be around other people. I love to be around other people when everyone's feeling good and doing their best. Not to just be the only one in the room that's shining.

Ava DuVernay

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And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.

William Styron

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