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Quotes About Sterile

Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.
~ Polykarp Kusch
I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
~ Alan Alda
Here, sex is removed from anything real, anything threatening. The parody of sex exhibited in the floor show is intended as an exorcism of the real thing and the passions it implies. Passion is to be made harmless here, turned into something hygienic, sterile, acceptable. Anyone foolish enough to do something genuine, anything worth getting blackmailed over, deserves only what he gets. Reno's
~ Walter Jon Williams
Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.
~ Sufjan Stevens
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
La imperfección busca la perfección. En cambio, la perfección en si misma es estéril.
~ Rafael Argullol
There's nothing colder than chemistry.
~ Anita Loos
Es gibt nichts, was leerer aussieht als ein leeres Schwimmbecken
~ Raymond Chandler
Kamikaze behaviour and other forms of altruism and cooperation by workers are not astonishing once we accept the fact that they are sterile. The body of a normal animal is manipulated to ensure the survival of its genes both through bearing offspring and through caring for other individuals containing the same genes.
~ Richard Dawkins
Giornate che a metterle assieme e pigiarle tutte quante non ne uscirebbe una stilla di vita. Ma la vita è così: ammassata e secca, piena di avvenimenti sterili e ripetuti e sempre uguali e di cui si perde memoria. Spremi, e verrà fuori un pulviscolo di frustrazioni standard e un odore di fenolo, un polverizzarsi di garze faraoniche.
~ Aldo Busi
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
~ Max Lerner
He thought about that visionary lady. To die, he thought, never knowing the fierce joy and attendant comfort of a loved one's embrace. To sink into that hideous coma, to sink then into death and, perhaps, return to sterile, awful wanderings. All without knowing what it was to love and be loved. That was a tragedy more terrible than becoming a vampire.
~ Richard Matheson
He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.
~ Aneurin Bevan
If I can not have the most brilliant destiny, I want the most wretched, not for the purpose of a sterile solitude, but in order to achieve something new with such rare matter.
~ Jean Genet
De acuerdo que la gramática es esencial, pero sólo si tiene como objeto la escritura: privada de su objetivo, se convierte en un código estéril.
~ Amelie Nothomb
So many celebrity websites you go to are so sterile that you know they just pay somebody to do it and there's not even an ounce of them in it.
~ Cindy Margolis
One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal retentive, Bauhaus elegance of the Mac does prevent the loose ends and confusion of a less sterile environment. But it also prevents fertility. Apple's development must come from within.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
The [living] room was as intimate as an operating room but not as welcoming.
~ Robert B. Parker
We went through an unmarked door and along a sterile tile corridor and through another unmarked door and then we were in the Blue Corridor and then the Blue Room.
~ Robert Crais
but their offspring, called mules, are sterile.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.
~ Polykarp Kusch
If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.
~ Benjamin Carson
Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the living practice of AAR's to a sterile technique.
~ Peter Senge