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Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required. Ada Yonath
Degraded Constantly Simultaneous Proteins Being Required Production Therefore
Once, when I tried to calculate the height of the balcony, I broke my arm. Another time, I wanted to see if water moves faster than kerosene. When my father came out to smoke, a fire broke out. Ada Yonath
Time Water Father Fire Faster Once Broke Out Tried See Arm Calculate Smoke Another Balcony Another Time Came Than Moves Wanted Height
My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either. Ada Yonath
Women Progressing Neighborhood Though Prevent Encourage Either Really
I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist. Ada Yonath
Morning Woman World Walk Will Experiment Thinking Out Carry Female Am Scientist Male Lab Conquer
I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted. Ada Yonath
Everything General Well Am Boycott Anything Anything And Everything Against Us
I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children. Ada Yonath
Family Additional Born Shared Families Children Apartment Poor Jerusalem Two
During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men. Ada Yonath
Time Competition Men Difficult Some My Time Had Years Very
From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much. Ada Yonath
Life Game Struggle Survival Cleaning Science Age Too Much Think Too About Had Name Making Conditions Up Being Dishes Much Sandwiches Hard Standards Washing Keep Floors
Even if I tried to fill up the stadium in Ramat Gan, I don't think I could. Ada Yonath
Think Tried Could Up Stadium Even Fill
When a man sits in our jails for a number of years, and around him friends and family become angry, that is how we create terrorists. Ada Yonath
Angry Family Man Become Our Him Around How Terrorists Years Friends Friends And Family Jails Create Number
I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books. Ada Yonath
Father Books Background Religious Born Rather Did Rabbi Poor Jerusalem
The world was not supportive. They look at me as a joke for 13 to 14 years until I could prove feasibility; then I had competitors. Those that laughed at me became my competitors. Ada Yonath
Me World Joke Those Laughed Could Had Supportive Look Until Became Prove Years Then Competitors
For quite a while, I didn't receive a higher academic status. I didn't feel any discrimination against me as a woman scientist, but I hadn't produced a lot of science journal articles. Ada Yonath
Me Science Woman Status Higher Journal Feel Academic Scientist Lot Discrimination Articles Any Quite Quite A While While Against Produced Receive
The Weizmann Institute showed me respect and didn't require many administrative tasks, so I was quite independent. I did what I wanted. Ada Yonath
Me Respect Independent Administrative Institute Did Tasks Quite Wanted Require Many
We're really just the frosting on a cake and we don't know what's inside the cake. Adam Riess
Cake Inside Know Just Really
We've known for a long time that the universe is expanding. But about 15 years ago, my colleagues and I discovered that it is expanding faster and faster. That is, the universe is accelerating, and that was not expected, but it is now attributed to this mysterious stuff called dark energy which seems to make up about 70 percent of the universe. Adam Riess
Time Dark Long Long Time Energy Faster Universe Colleagues About Percent Seems Mysterious Stuff Accelerate Make Known Attributed Make Up Years Discovered Years Ago Up Expanding Expected Which Now
I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling. Adam Riess
Think Universe Out Mystery Very Just Compelling
Your chemistry high school teacher lied to you when they told you that there was such a thing as a vacuum, that you could take space and move every particle out of it. Adam Riess
Teacher You School Space Chemistry Every Out High Lied High School High School Teacher Could Take Particle School Teacher Move Your Such A Thing Thing Vacuum
We look at distant exploding stars called supernovae, and we've developed techniques to measure how far away they are and how fast they're moving away from us. Adam Riess
Stars Distant Developed Look How How Far Moving Moving Away Exploding Far Far Away Us Measure Away Fast Techniques
Until the 1990s, there were few reliable observations about movement at the scale of the entire universe, which is the only scale dark energy effects. So dark energy could not be seen until we could measure things very, very far away. Adam Riess
Dark Seen Few Energy Universe Scale Reliable Entire About Only Could Observations Until Were Effects Very Movement Which Far Far Away Measure Away Things
During my time at Watchung Hills Regional High School, I was fortunate to have a number of teachers who inspired me and filled me with enthusiasm for learning. Adam Riess
Time Me Learning School Enthusiasm High High School My Time Inspired Hills Regional Fortunate Teachers Who Filled Number
As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex. Adam Sedgwick
God Anger Aim Philosophy System Daring High Seek Poised Pyramid Tower Like Shelter Against Apex Babel
The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world. Adam Sedgwick
Man World Philosophy Strips Moral Pretended Physical Days Attributes His Account Modern Estimate Holds Place Them Created Origin
Far too often, children with developmental disorders are diagnosed solely on the basis of their observable behavior, slotted into broad diagnostic pigeonholes and provided generalized treatments that may not always meet their specific needs. Aditi Shankardass
Needs Behavior Too Meet Broad Solely Observable Generalized Developmental Diagnosed Always Provided May Often Children Far Disorders Specific Basis Treatments
When looking at the brain, it is important to go beyond its structure to its function. This is because often in cognitive disorders, the structure of the brain is intact, but its function is compromised. Aditi Shankardass
Important Looking Structure Compromised Beyond Because Intact Go Brain Often Disorders Function Cognitive
Abnormalities in brain function have traditionally been detected using electroencephalography (EEG), which involves the measurement of the ongoing electrical activity generated by the brain. Aditi Shankardass
Measurement Ongoing Involves Been Brain Which Electrical Using Function Activity
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