Alfred Sturtevant quotes

Alfred Sturtevant quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been Drosophila.”
-- Alfred Sturtevant

#Gnats Quotes #Vinegar Quotes #Slime Quotes

“There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been Drosophila.”
“Other people write about the bling and the booty. I write about the pus and the gnats. To me, that's beautiful.”
“Can you walk on water? You have done no better than a straw. Can you fly through the air? You are no better than a gnat. Conquer your heart-then you may become somebody.”
“Remember what your mama told you about honey and vinegar: Be nice, and youâ€™ll catch more flies, if nothing else.”
“You do not get more with honey than with vinegar.”

Source : "You Can Never Not Fight Back!". Interview with Alisa Solomon, www.villagevoice.com. December 7, 2004.
“There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it with vinegar?”

Source : William Morley Punshon (1873). “Lectures and Sermons”, p.20, Adam, Stevenson
“I always believed the theory of evolution as truth, that we all just came from the slime. When we, when we died, you know, that was it, there is nothing.”
“I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame... i'd actually rather die than be a celebrity slime!!!”
“Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.”
“What's the difference between a politician and a catfish? One is a wide-mouthed, bottom-feeding, slime sucker - and the other is a fish.”

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