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"This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation."
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"Nothing will bind the eyes of man quicker than the touch of compromise. A principle not compromised is a principle worth dying for. A dream not compromised is a dream worth living for."
"Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages."
"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others."
"This 'Akram science' does not scorn worldly interaction in the slightest. While living absolutely within it's reality, It does not scorn the worldly interaction. Not scorning worldly interaction is itself a thing of principle."
"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."
"Mirabelle always ate her lunch on Brighton beach if the weather was in any way passable, but out of sheer principle she never paid tuppence for a chair. We did not win the war to have to pay to sit down, she frequently found herself thinking."
"Principle' [Established Truth] means everywhere applicable; when there is nothing else, it is called Principle."
"That which never attains a state of non-principle [non-truth] is known as the principle."
"In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions."
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"Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend."
"The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take."
"Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money."
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