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)