1,140 Quotes by E. B. White

For 30 years scientists have suspected that gene regulation has played a central role in human evolution. In addition to lending support to the idea that changes in gene regulation are a key part of our evolutionary history, these new results help to define exactly which regulatory factors may be important, at least in certain tissues. This helps open the door to a functional dissection of the role of gene regulation during the evolution of modern humans.

Home was quite a place when people stayed there.

Once you get (a national title) once, you want to get it again. She is not the type to be satisfied. We are looking forward to the outdoor season and hopefully she can lead us and get another one.

Most of Congress is sort of lost in cyberspace,

Use the smallest word that does the job.

When my wife's Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: 'Remembrance is sufficient of the beauty we have seen.' I cherish the remembrance of the beauty I have seen. I cherish the grave, compulsive word.

Do you understand how there could be any writing in a spider's web?" "Oh, no," said Dr. Dorian. "I don't understand it. But for that matter I don't understand how a spider learned to spin a web in the first place. When the words appeared, everyone said they were a miracle. But nobody pointed out that the web itself is a miracle." "What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle-it's just a web." "Ever try to spin one?" asked Dr. Dorian.

Now, for the first time ever, all the necessary conditions - the availability of tools, resources and political will - are right for the effective scaling up of proven tools to control the disease.

We're going to win -- I promise you.