Stem Quotes - Page 17

• Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.

  Arthur Peacocke

  Selfish, Humanity, Desire

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• The best that can be said about embryonic stem cell research is that it is scientific exploration into the potential benefits of killing human beings.

  Tom DeLay

  Cells, Research, Benefits

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• There is a strong religious commitment to the sanctity of human life, but, paradoxically, some of the most fervent protectors of microscopic stem cells are the most ardent proponents of the death penalty.

  Jimmy Carter

  Religious, Strong, Commitment

  Jimmy Carter (2005). “Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• The nature of mind: much of its power seems to stem from just the messy ways its agents cross-connect. ...it's only what we must expect from evolution's countless tricks.

  Marvin Minsky

  Mind, Agents, Way

  Marvin Minsky (1988). “Society Of Mind”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.

  Criss Jami

  People, Gaps, Denominations

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.27, Criss Jami

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• The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants has a huge plan that stems from the earlier issues of Uncanny X-Force. Archangel's fall was really the smaller consequence from killing the child Apocalypse. This is the big consequence.

  Rick Remender

  Children, Fall, Issues

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• Even one word, or certainly one sentence, should be able to describe the basic characteristic that the scene has, or the character has, or the story has. And then you begin to detail that one spine, and you have offshoots from that spine, and it becomes more and more complex, but all of it stems from that one-word, one-line theme, which can give the character, the scene, or the play its uniqueness.

  William Shatner

  Character, Play, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My Faith is larger than the Hills— So when the Hills decay— My Faith must take the Purple Wheel To show the Sun the way— 'Tis first He steps upon the Vane— And then — upon the Hill— And then abroad the World He go To do His Golden Will— And if His Yellow feet should miss— The Bird would not arise— The Flowers would slumber on their Stems— No Bells have Paradise— How dare I, therefore, stint a faith On which so vast depends— Lest Firmament should fail for me— The Rivet in the Bands

  Emily Dickinson

  Faith, Flower, Purple

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.243, Harvard University Press

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• A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a page and turn the seasons. Read the sentence and enjoy the roses.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Garden, Hands

  Max Lucado (2012). “A Gentle Thunder: Hearing God Through the Storm”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Your silent thoughts are like the roots of a plant. They remain hidden in the dark recesses of the earth, but from them stems the whole plant--its life and form, its strength and beauty. From them and through them the plant lives and dies. So, too, your thoughts, although hidden, are your real, vital force.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Real, Dark, Thinking

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.97, Sophia Institute Press

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• An additional concern of leadership is the caution that some members of the nation's stem- cell research community have raised about state investments in this new area of scientific research.

  Joe Donnelly

  Cells, Community, Research

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• I stood tip-toe upon a little hill, The air was cooling, and so very still, That the sweet buds which with a modest pride Pull droopingly, in slanting curve aside, Their scantly leaved, and finely tapering stems, Had not yet lost those starry diadems Caught from the early sobbing of the morn.

  John Keats

  Sweet, Pride, Curves

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.32, Harvard University Press

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• True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.

  Alain de Botton

  Majority, Reasoning, Respectability

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, 2000.

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• To cut out every negative root would simultaneously mean choking off positive elements that might arise from it further up the stem of the plant. We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.

  Alain de Botton

  Beautiful, Mean, Cutting

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, 2000.

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• Well, the American public always wanted to vote for a guy — and Bush was the perfect guy — who they'd want to have over for pot-roast. And George Bush is that guy. He does that well. You'd like to have him over for pot-roast. He reminds you of yourself. Okay. Well, now he's been over, he's had the pot-roast. But he's getting drunk and now he's talking about stem cells and Terri Schiavo and gay marriage. And now he's the guest that won't leave.

  Bill Maher

  Gay, Cells, Perfect Guy

  "Real Time" with Bill Maher, April 29, 2005.

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• The bourgeois ... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be.

  Theodor Adorno

  People, Hatred, Might

  "Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life". Book by Theodor Adorno, 1951.

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• Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it.

  Jacques Maritain

  Inspiration, Mind, Doe

  Jacques Maritain (2012). “Christianity and Democracy, the Rights of Man and Natural Law”, p.36, Ignatius Press

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• No man-made law ever, no matter whether derived from the past or projected onto a distant, unforeseeable future, can or should ever be empowered to claim that it is greater than the Natural Law from which it stems and to which it must inevitably return in the eternal rhythm of creation and decline of all things natural.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Past, Men, Law

  Wilhelm Reich (1960). “Selected Writings: An Introduction to Orgonomy”

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• Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution...[they] really stem from a mixture of Judaism and Christianity...[we English] had 1688, our quiet revolution, where Parliament exerted its will over the King...it was not the sort of Revolution that France's was...'Liberty, equality, fraternity' - they forgot obligations and duties I think. And then of course the fraternity went missing for a long time.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Kings, Thinking, Rights

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another! Not calculable by algebra, not deducible by logic, but mysterious, effectual, mighty as the hidden process by which the tiny seed is quickened, and bursts forth into tall stem and broad leaf, and glowing tasseled flower.

  George Eliot

  Love, Flower, Blessed

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3798, Delphi Classics

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• I was working with stem cells as part of a NASA programme. We realised that the science of stem-cell proliferation was also fundamental to cancer cells when cancer enters the phase of metastasis.

  Patrick Soon-Shiong

  Cancer, Cells, Phases

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• We need stem-cell research, no question about it. It is absolutely crucial for moving our medical science forward. We are trying to harness an untapped source of energy that can provide cures and possibly even prevent disease and suffering.

  Richard Carmona

  Moving, Cells, Suffering

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• As far as I'm concerned, everything bad that happens in the world stems from the same place, they're people who don't feel important.

  Jim Carrey

  People, Important, World

  "Jim Carrey On His 'World Stopping' New Book". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. September 24, 2013.

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• How do the stems connect to the roots?' 'Where is the mist coming from?' 'Why does one tree seem darker than another?' These questions are implicitly asked and answered in the process of sketching.

  Alain de Botton

  Roots, Tree, Doe

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• You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization.

  Ron Reagan

  Cells, Research, Consistent

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 23, 2004.

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