Paul-Ehrlich-Institut - Center for testing and licencing (immuno)biological drugs, registration and evaluating adverse drug reaction, inspection and controlling of pharmaceutical companies and transfusion centres
ifkud - German Studies - The institute is devoted to the study of contemporary German literature, politics and culture. Main fields of research are: GDR literature, citizens' movements. Read / download our journal, lectures and articles. The institute is located at the University of Bremen, Germany.
Sennickerode Field Station - The Sennickerode Field Station constitutes Göttingen University's primate research and teaching facility. Its primary focus is on primate behavioral biology in the fields of applied ethology, eco-ethology and sociobiology. A further point of research emphasizes human and non-human primate evolution in consideration and advancement of phylogenetic methodology.
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Science and Environment An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Science and Environment
"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Science and Environment Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Science and Environment
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Science and Environment Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Science and Environment
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Science and Environment
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Science and Environment Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Science and Environment
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Science and Environment "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Science and Environment
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Science and Environment Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Science and Environment
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Science and Environment I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Science and Environment
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Science and Environment Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Science and Environment Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Science and Environment
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Science and Environment "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Science and Environment
