For each chromosome contributed by the sperm there is a corresponding chromosome contributed by the egg, there are two chromosomes of each kind, which together constitute a pair.

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.

One of the most amazing developments in the history of biology.

For each chromosome contributed by the sperm there is a corresponding chromosome contributed by the egg, there are two chromosomes of each kind, which together constitute a pair.

The egg of every species of animal or plant carries a definite number of bodies called chromosomes. The sperm carries the same number. Consequently, when the sperm unites with the egg, the fertilized egg will contain the double number of chromosomes.

Many people want to scale back their working hours as they near the end of their careers, but not necessarily to give up work altogether.

Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.

The Lone Ranger is going to be one of those iconic characters that never rides off into the sunset. We need heroes like him - an underdog who fights the good fight, doesn't kill, and has some serious mojo when the chips are down.

If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer.

It's very hard to concentrate when your stomach's rumbling.

Anyone can shoot a gun but the real power comes from non violent means.

People always ask me, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alibi.

I like the way that different people recognise me for the roles I done.

To be honest, unless you rocket straight to stardom as a gorgeous young vampire, you can spend a lot of time working behind a bar.

Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to confusion and disagreement, for 'democracy' has meant different things to different people at different times and places.

It's self-deceptive to think we're in a post-feminist world when we never tried a feminist world.

It's hard for a comic to be joking when your lines can't be funny.

You know how in most teenage movies the girl meets the boy, they kiss, they have some type of fallout, then there's an awkward sex scene, and then they're together forever? And they say the perfect things the whole way? That doesn't happen in real life.

When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.

Everybody in this country who wants to should be able to get as much education as they want. Education is the best resource we have.

But effective regulation at the European Union level can make a massive contribution to achieving our shared goals of improving competitiveness, jobs and growth.

Your words smell of corpses.

It's just keeping what I want private, private, and the same with Charlie.

Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success.

I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.

I pointed out that the Atlanta Olympic bomber - as well as Timothy McVeigh and the people who protest against gay rights at military funerals - are Christians but we journalists don't identify them by their religion.