Cells Quotes - Page 40

• If you use a cell phone - as I do - your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.

  Al Franken

  Phones, Years, Use

  "How Privacy Has Become an Antitrust Issue" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2012.

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• If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

  Nhat Hanh

  Dream, Practice, Meditation

  "Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh: only love can save us from climate change". Interview with Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2013.

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• In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.

  Stephen Hawking

  Opportunity, America, Research

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• Aging is basically the build-up of error: error at the genetic level, error at the cellular level. Cells normally repair themselves; that's why you heal when you get a cut. But even the mechanism of repair eventually falls apart.

  Michio Kaku

  Fall, Cutting, Errors

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• Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they're the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them, cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Party, Book, Home

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• I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Phones, Firsts, Cell Phone

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• So someday in the near future hopefully rather than having a foot or a leg amputated we'll just give you an injection of the cells and restore the blood flow. We've also created entire tubes of red blood cells from scratch in the laboratory. So there are a lot of exciting things in the pipeline.

  Robert Lanza

  Blood, Feet, Giving

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• In fact when you combine stem cell technology with the technology known as tissue engineering you can actually grow up entire organs, so as you suggest that sometime in the future you get in an auto accident and lose your kidney, we'd simply take a few skin cells and grow you up a new kidney. In fact this has already been done.

  Robert Lanza

  Growing Up, Technology, Engineering

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• If I found the cure for dystrophy tomorrow, I would do a telethon in four weeks for acute pain that in this country is a bigger problem than cancer, heart, sickle cell, anemia, name it. It is - it's hitting 70 million Americans.

  Jerry Lewis

  Country, Pain, Cancer

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• But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.

  Armistead Maupin

  Communication, Opportunity, Phones

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• There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer.

  Wentworth Miller

  Yards, Inmates, Kind

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• If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive.

  Elon Musk

  Technology, Thinking, Phones

  "Extended Interview: Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk". Interview with Spencer Michels, www.pbs.org. June 25, 2008.

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• The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.

  Elon Musk

  Electric Motors, Energy, Batteries

  "Extended Interview: Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk". Interview with Spencer Michels, www.pbs.org. June 25, 2008.

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• A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery.

  Elon Musk

  Numbers, Challenges, Energy

  "Extended Interview: Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk". Interview with Spencer Michels, www.pbs.org. June 25, 2008.

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• I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple's product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium.

  Elon Musk

  Thinking, Phones, Apples

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.

  Elon Musk

  Technology, Thinking, Ions

  "Extended Interview: Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk". Interview with Spencer Michels, www.pbs.org. June 25, 2008.

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• Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Mean, Phones, Growth

  "Is Obama the Most Famous Living Person Ever?" by Dee Dee Myers, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2009.

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• The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Religious, Ivf, Dna

  "Human Clones: Why Not?" by Nathan Myhrvold, www.slate.com. March 14, 1997.

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• It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.

  Bob Newhart

  Phones, Talking, People

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• I don't even own a cell phone.

  Jack Nicholson

  Phones, Cell Phone

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• We know that our cells are speaking to each other.

  Yoko Ono

  Knows

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• Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch.

  Yoko Ono

  Years, Body, Seven

  "This much I know" by Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

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• Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone all day long, and it warbles to alert me that someone has sent me a message on Facebook or a reply or direct message on Twitter, but it rarely ever rings.

  Susan Orlean

  Phones, Long, Texting

  "Hello, It's Me" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 12, 2010.

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• I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a Web site. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines.

  Susan Orlean

  Home, Phones, Ideas

  "Communication Fatigue" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 9, 2011.

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• Conservatives and companies condoned Rush Limbaugh's 2006 attacks on Michael J. Fox for campaigning about stem cell research.

  Christine Pelosi

  Research, Foxes, Michael J Fox

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