"As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it."

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"As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it."

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"Caress the detail, the divine detail."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Detail,

"In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process."

Sidney Sheldon, American Novelist

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"With Fever, the film was so made for the screen, and there's so much surround sound that was done for the film - enormous detail paid to that. I wasn't thinking video, because I didn't know how it was going to turn out."

Alex Winter, American Actor

Detail, Film, Sound, Thinking

"In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them."

Michael Behe, American Scientist

Detail, Eye, World

"All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish."

Gustav Mahler, Austrian Composer

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"A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable."

Heather Donahue, American Actress

Detail, Entertainment, Illness, Today

"In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv."

Henri Cartier-Bresson, French Photographer

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"To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail."

Giorgio Armani, Italian Designer

Detail,

"We think in generalities, but we live in detail."

Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician

Detail,

"Like most little girls, I found the lure of grown-up accessories astonishing - lipstick, perfume, hats and gloves. When I write female characters in my historical novels, getting these details right is vital."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"We are all very individual. You have to find out what you can do best, and be self-conscious about that."

Self

"I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science."

Science

"If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing."

Work

"I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room."

Work

"If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that."

Interest

"I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21."

Work

"Life's a hobby."

Life

"Everybody has to learn for the first time."

Time

"I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities."

Education

"All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals."

Being