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The ribosome is a machine that gets instructions from the genetic code and operates chemically in order to produce the product.
— Ada Yonath
It doesn't take a declaration, or an invasion, to start a war, all it takes is an 'us' and a 'them.' And a spark.
— Ada Palmer
Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.
— Ada Yonath
Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.
— Ada Lovelace
On a scale of one to pissed I'd rate them pissed.
— Ada Palmer
The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.
— Ada Lovelace
Their first free and frantic caresses had been preceded by a brief period of strange craftiness, of cringing stealth.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart.
— Lord Byron
understood then, but these past years, seeing Bridger's powers, I let myself fall into the delusion that Providence might be simple.
— Ada Palmer
There is nothing so banal in the world,' said Ada 'than pitching stones at a hawfinch.
— Vladimir Nabokov
It is a great honor for me to be able to express my sincere gratitude to the Nobel Foundation.
— Ada Yonath
Envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.
— Ada Leverson
I saw you fall. Are you okay?" he asked. "Yup, great," I said, forcing a smile. "Dancing One, Dawn Zero.
— Ada Adams
Observe, Chagatai, the protagonist of every work of fiction is Humanity, and the antagonist is God.
— Ada Palmer
A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
— Ada Leverson
I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father ... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
— Ada Yonath
I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
— Ada Yonath
Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.
— Ada Yonath
An optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
— Ada Leverson
One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.
— Ada Lovelace
My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to study.
— Ada Yonath
The romantic fairy tales we grew up with -- where marriage is the happy ending rather than the opening scene -- are not useful for grown-ups.
— Ada Calhoun
Dating is poetry. Marriage is a novel. There are times, maybe years, that are all exposition.
— Ada Calhoun
The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
— Ada King Lovelace
Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
— Ada Leverson
Break a promise to the dead and they'll haunt you, Ada says. Keep the promise and they'll haunt you just the same.
— Jennifer Donnelly
Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.
— Ada Velez-Boardley
(Personally, I have avoided many fights by going to bed angry and waking up to realize that I'd just been tired.)
— Ada Calhoun
I am a Humanist because I believe in heroes, that history is driven by those individuals with fire enough to change the world.
— Ada Palmer
ADA Cher Reo was sleeping off a night of drunken revelry like the rest of them, so that would be handy.
— J.D. Robb
As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.
— Ada Lovelace
During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.
— Ada Yonath
My mother's psychic says, everyone essentially wants
the same thing as everyone else, a sense of belonging, a coming home. — Ada Limon
the same thing as everyone else, a sense of belonging, a coming home. — Ada Limon
Would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk's whole seraglio, gazelle-eyes, houri forms, and all!
— Charlotte Bronte
It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
— Larry Wall
...this life is a fist
of fast wishes caught by nothing
but the fishhook of tomorrow's tug. — Ada Limon
of fast wishes caught by nothing
but the fishhook of tomorrow's tug. — Ada Limon
Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.
— Ada Leverson
Bryar Kosala just likes helping people, and is good at running things, and when invited to become the world's Mom she said, "Sure.
— Ada Palmer
Love, Ada thought out on the lake that first spring afternoon, is largely a matter of paying attention and good timing.
— Alice Randall
I'm truly glad I've managed to get the public interested in questions about basic research.
— Ada Yonath
The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
...that's part of what marriage means: sometimes hating this other person but staying together because you promised you would.
— Ada Calhoun
The unspoken philosophy of all those in love with Ada was something like this: If I have to die to get that, then death it is.
— John Corey Whaley
I don't distinguish between men and women. This is irrelevant to me, and I don't think in these terms.
— Ada Yonath
An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
I swear, I'll try harder not to miss as much: the tree, or how your fingers under still sleep-stunned sheets coaxed all my colors back.
— Ada Limon
And so it is that a new joie de vivre creeps into Ada's soul like a moth into a trunk of woollens.
— Dasa Drndic
You're destined for something great, Ada, I know this. And it's an honor to help see you through it.
— Karina Halle
Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Wherever you go, there you are. You would just have different problems. Are the problems you have now so bad that any other problems would be better?
— Ada Calhoun
Thus did Ada, Countess of Lovelace, help sow the seeds for a digital age that would blossom a hundred years later.
— Walter Isaacson
Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
— Ada Yonath
The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Christopher Tietjens is a sad sorry bastard who just refuses to get out of the way on the oncoming train of change.
— Ada Maria Soto
All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.
— Ada Leverson
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
People who don't marry miss both the pelting hardships of marriage and its warm rewards.
— Ada Calhoun
The Weizmann Institute showed me respect and didn't require many administrative tasks, so I was quite independent. I did what I wanted.
— Ada Yonath
I'm always having to get rid of reporters.
— Ada Yonath
Deep down, we're all some kind of crazy, Ada.
— Laura Miller
No one wants to be remembered for their death, or rather, I don't. So why do I remember hers and remember hers? I
— Ada Limon
Ada Taylor knelt beside me on the floor as I cried for the first time over the thought that my favorite person in the world was probably dead.
— John Corey Whaley
Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
— Ada Cambridge
Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
— Ada Leverson
...there is so much beauty in the trying, and in the failing, and in the trying again.
— Ada Calhoun
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
— Ada Lovelace
There is a light at the end of every tunnel. Some tunnels just happen to be longer than others.
— Ada Adams
There remains the mystery of how the pupil devours so much bastard beauty. Abandoned property.
This land and I are rewilding. — Ada Limon
This land and I are rewilding. — Ada Limon
The Futurists? ... Well, of course, they are already past.
— Ada Leverson
Every generation tailors history to its taste.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
— Ada Lovelace
I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.
— Ada Yonath
I like sunrises, Mondays, and new seasons. God seems to be saying,"with me you can always start afresh.
— Ada Lum
When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship
Dante
Petrarch
that sort of thing! — Ada Leverson
Dante
Petrarch
that sort of thing! — Ada Leverson
I was told to ask you something, said Ada finally.
I know, said ELIXIR. I've been waiting. — Liz Moore
I know, said ELIXIR. I've been waiting. — Liz Moore
Only a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
It's exactly my sense of existing - a fragment, a wisp of color.
— Vladimir Nabokov
I want to say that at various points in your marriage, may it last forever, you will look at this person and feel only rage.
— Ada Calhoun
Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.
— Ada Yonath
If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.
— Ada Louise Huxtable