Stranded DNA Virus

Famous quotes containing the words stranded, dna and/or virus:

    “Durer would have seen a reason for living
    in a town like this, with eight stranded whales
    to look at;”
    —Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

    “Here [in London, history] ... seemed the very fabric of things, as if the city were a single growth of stone and brick, uncounted strata of message and meaning, age upon age, generated over the centuries to the dictates of some now all-but-unreadable DNA of commerce and empire.”
    —William Gibson (b. 1948)

    “If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life ... for fear that I should get some of his good done to me,—some of its virus mingled with my blood.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)