Cells Quotes - Page 6

• The human brain is estimated to have about a hundred billion nerve cells, two million miles of axons, and a million billion synapses, making it the most complex structure, natural or artificial, on earth.

  Tim Green

  Two, Brain, Earth

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• The cell, too, has a geography, and its reactions occur in colloidal apparatus, of which the form, and the catalytic activity of its manifold surfaces, must efficiently contribute to the due guidance of chemical reactions.

  Frederick Gowland Hopkins

  Guidance, Geography, Chemical Reactions

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• I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster work at home? Then how likely is he to have his cell phone on? Is he one of those people who only turns on his cell when he's in his car? I hate that.

  Susan Orlean

  Hate, Home, Phones

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

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• The cell, this elementary keystone of living nature, is far from being a peculiar chemical giant molecule or even a living protein and as such is not likely to fall prey to the field of an advanced chemistry. The cell is itself an organism, constituted of many small units of life.

  Oscar Hertwig

  Life, Fall, Science

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• All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule.

  Lewis Thomas

  Science, Dna, Simplicity

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.

  James D. Watson

  Brain, Mind, Connections

  Foreword for "Discovering the Brain" by Sandra Ackerman, p. iii, 1992.

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• The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats that degenerates. Renew this fluid at regular intervals, give the cells what they require for nutrition, and as far as we know, the pulsation of life can go on forever.

  Alexis Carrel

  Healing, Health, Medicine

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• Every cell in your body is totally aware of how you think and feel about yourself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Thinking, Body, About Yourself

  Deepak Chopra (2007). “The Essential Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Essence of the Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, p.26, Harmony

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• I like to experience the universe as one harmonious whole. Every cell has life. Matter, too, has life; it is energy solidified. Our bodies are like prisons, and I look forward to be free, but I don't speculate on what will happen to me. I live here now, and my responsibility is in this world now.

  Albert Einstein

  Simple, Law, Tree

  "Einstein and the poet". Book by William Hermanns, p. 64, 1983.

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• A "dis-ease" is simply a name to the respective symptom (or collection of symptoms) that occurs when acids damage the cells of the body (or set in motion an inflammatory response), and a symptom is experienced. Names of "dis-eases" may seem complex but please understand that they are simply: location, location, location! One must alkalize the body to reverse the inflammation and return balance to the body.

  Robert Morse

  Inspiring, Names, Balance

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• The absorption and organization of sunlight, the essence of life, is derived almost exclusively through plants. Since light is the driving force of every cell in our bodies, that is why we need green plants.

  Maximilian Bircher-Benner

  Health, Light, Green Plants

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• The body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen. Disease is merely the conflict of the citizens of the state brought about by the action of external forces.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Citizens, Body, Disease

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• Any cell, tissue, or organ is capable of crying for attention, and when you give it some, the healing process begins.

  Deepak Chopra

  Healing, Giving, Attention

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• In all serious disease states we find a concomitant low oxygen state... Low oxygen in the body tissues is a sure indicator for disease...Hypoxia, or lack of oxygen in the tissues, is the fundamental cause for all degenerative disease. Oxygen is the source of life to all cells.

  Stephen Levine

  Oxygen, Breathing, Fundamentals

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• If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information.

  Dee Hock

  Single Life, Information, Firsts

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• The family is the first essential cell of human society.

  Pope John XXIII

  Inspirational, Family, Inspiring

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• I felt my cell phone buzz, and I looked at the screen. Ranger. “Your GPS just went blank,” Ranger said when I answered. “The car exploded.” There was a beat of silence. “Rafael won the pool,” Ranger said. “Are you okay?” “Yes.” “I’ll send someone.

  Janet Evanovich

  Gps, Phones, Car

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Smokin' Seventeen”, p.146, Hachette UK

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• We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.

  Walter Gilbert

  Genes, Happens, Knows

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• Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Life, Wall, Mirrors

  "Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill".

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• In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That's right, the President said, this is a quote, the research could help cure brain diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and whatever it is I have.

  Conan O'Brien

  Alzheimer's, Brain, President

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• Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.

  Tom Allen

  Promise, Research, Disease

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• These little grey cells. It is up to them.

  Agatha Christie

  Literature, Littles, Grey

  'The Mysterious Affair at Styles' (1920) ch. 10 (Hercule Poirot)

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• Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

  Cate Blanchett

  Eye, Wind, Brain

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• There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell research.

  Virginia Foxx

  Lying, Exaggeration Is, Perspective

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• As we explore ways to bring price relief and bolster our country's energy independence, one significant energy source has emerged as a potential solution, hydrogen fuel cells.

  Dan Lipinski

  Country, Idaho, Hydrogen Fuel

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