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The term 'alpha female' originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It refers to women who are in charge, for example, by flirting and dating on their own terms. It is also used maliciously for a loud-mouthed, controlling woman who has no patience with deviating opinions. Frans de Waal

Patience Woman Animal Women Behavior Example Own Controlling Field Charge Dating Term New For Example Alpha Terms Also Female Opinions Meaning Acquired Used Who Flirting Originated

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice. Frans de Waal

Justice Compassion Sense Morality Pillars Human

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present. Franz Boas

Equality All Races Would Would-Be Select Emotionally Most Were Intelligent Stable Energetic Mankind Races Present Imaginative Third

Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment. It enables the diabetic to burn sufficient carbohydrates so that proteins and fats may be added to the diet in sufficient quantities to provide energy for the economic burdens of life. Frederick Banting

I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge. Frederick Sanger

Knowledge Colleagues Pursuit Been Engaged Here

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters. Galileo Galilei

Together Nothing Stars Else Way Mass Clusters Planted Milky Way

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm. Georg C. Lichtenberg

Our Once Weaknesses Know Cease Any Us Harm

To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties. Gilbert Newton Lewis

Life Music Every Increase Inquire Machinery Complexity Seeking Properties Leads New Like Arrangement Often Substance Form Incalculable Electrical Origin

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. Gregory Bateson

Learning Generation Culture People Values Parents Geared Attempt Fails Because Pass Always Cultural Replicate Human Next Transmission Next Generation Skills

All experience is subjective. Gregory Bateson

Experience Subjective

Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family. Gregory Bateson

Family Training Members Religious Outside Course Source Families Get Any

As long as we do not know how the cell works, we don't know the kind of havoc the AIDS virus creates in the cell. Gunter Blobel

Long AIDS Virus Kind Havoc Know How Cell Creates Works

There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. Hannes Alfven

I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions. Harold E. Varmus

People Smoking Behavior Important Medicine Incredibly Willingness Habits Take Steps Questions Begin HIV Behavioral Quit Transmission Avoid Premise Element

Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture. Helen Fisher

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