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Martin Chalfie Quotes

If you do an experiment and it gives you what you did not expect, it is a discovery.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 15, 1947

Topics

You Discovery Experiment Expect Did

Maybe the universe is a giant practical joke and we don't know the punchline.

Universe Know Joke Practical Giant

I love my films. I have stacks and stacks of DVDs. I put 'Last of the Mohicans' on the other day with Daniel Day-Lewis. It hurts me to say it because he's a Millwall fan, but I think he's fantastic.

Love Day Me Think Say Last

The 1980s were fantastic. This was a time when we were at the peak of our creative work. The question of whether we would exist or not - something which everybody used to ask, including ourselves - stopped. Profits kept pace with growth requirements. HCL had credibility - that was the biggest barrier we had to break.

Work Growth Time Creative Question

Ultimately I'm the writer for me, but also, anytime one of my friends gets stuck with a bit, they can call me, and I'm pretty good at helping them get there.

Good Me Friends Pretty Call Get

I didn't really grow up with any traditions. I grew up in a pretty liberal household in Southern California. I think that's part of my interest in thinking about heritage. I don't have a second language or cultural heritage in that way.

Think Thinking Language Grow Way Up

I actually cried during 'Titanic'. It was one of the few movies I've seen in the theater multiple times.

Movies Titanic Seen Theater Actually

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

Live World Everything Seems Just

I was a very avid reader when I was a child, and I also was a good listener.

Good Child Listener Very Avid Also

London is the clearing-house of the world.

Joseph Chamberlain

Beyond the hype, style, and speculation, the truth is that the iPad is really just another tablet device. A really big PDA, where a touchscreen does what a laptop's keyboard used to do.

Douglas Rushkoff

Truth Style Truth Is Beyond Big

My dad was very much a John Wayne kind of guy, but he was also a great guy, great sense of humor, a real dedicated dad. I don't think he ever missed a hockey game I was in.

Great Humor Game Hockey Think Kind

My grandmother was a huge western fan. She'd have me watch with her. 'Shane,' 'Bonanza,' 'Duel in the Sun,' I saw them all with her. I used to watch them until the TV turned to snow.

Snow Sun Me Grandmother She Watch

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