Quotes and something else

 

“People are DNA’s way of making more DNA”

– Edward O. Wilson.

“A Hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg”

Samuel Butler, “Life and Habit”.

“The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale”

Richard Dawkins.

 

Quotes from Jurassic Park

 

“your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didnt stop to think if they should”

 

“it didnt require any discipline to attain it”

“what you call discovery, I call rape of the natural world”

 

  – You’re implying that a group composed entirely of female animals will… breed?

– No, I’m simply saying that life, uh… finds a way.

 

Dr. Ian Malcolm: “Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”

 

“-God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs…

– Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth…

 

“-God help us; we’re in the hands of engineers!”

 

Don’t you see the danger, John, inherent in what you’re doing here? Genetic power is the most awesome force the planet’s ever witnessed, yet you wield it like a kid that’s found his dad’s gun.

 

If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it’s that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, expands to new territory, and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously.

 

You’ll have to get used to Dr. Malcolm, he suffers from a deplorable excess of personality.

 

 

Quotes from Sleeper (Woody Allen, 1973)

 

“Science is an intellectual dead end, you know? It’s a lot of little guys in tweed suits cutting up frogs on foundation grants. ”

 

“My brain! It’s my second favorite organ!”

 

Dr. Melik: This morning for breakfast he requested something called “wheat germ, organic honey and tiger’s milk.”
Dr. Aragon: [chuckling] Oh, yes. Those are the charmed substances that some years ago were thought to contain life-preserving properties.
Dr. Melik: You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or… hot fudge?
Dr. Aragon: Those were thought to be unhealthy… precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true.
Dr. Melik: Incredible.

Miles: Where am I anyhow, I mean, what happened to everybody, where are all my friends?
Dr. Aragon: You must understand that everyone you knew in the past has been dead nearly two hundred years.
Miles: But they all ate organic rice!

 

Miles: This stuff tastes awful. I could make a fortune selling it in my health food store.
 

More Funny Stuff:

 

 Life is a sexually transmitted disease

 

Support bacteria – it’s the only culture some people have!

 

Thesaurus: ancient reptile with an excellent vocabulary

 

 

 

Q. What does DNA stand for? A: National Dislexic Association 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did you hear about the biologist who had twins?  She baptized one and kept the other as a control.

 

 

Vampire quotes:

 

 “We have lived in this country for four generations. We’re Americans-Carpathians-Americans. We work here, we live here, we pay taxes, we’re entitled to the protection of the law. I think it is time we came out of the damn coffin” (“Blood ties”)

 

“I’ll take a lite…Blood Lite” (“Nightlife”)

 

“I think I should warn you I have certain unusual habits. I’m late riser, very late…When I am sleeping I must never be disturbed…And I am on a liquid diet” (“Nightlife”)

 

“Fun? How would you like to go around dressed like a head-waiter for seven hundred years? Just once I’d like to go to dinner in a turtle neck and a sports jacket.” (“Love at first bite”)

 

“Vampires get such a crummy deal. Not only do we have to sleep in worn-eaten old coffins and wear these smelly old clothes, but we can’t even look in the mirror when we want to fix ourselves up to a little bit” (“The vampire moves in”)

 

“Al I know is that I haven’t had a suntan in one hundred and thurty six years… I would give anything just to go to the beach for at least fifteen minutes” (“Vampire Hookers”)

 

Mixed Quotes

 

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. Kurt Vonnegut

  

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college. Bill Vaughan

  

 The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas Bill Vaughan.

  

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. Mark Twain