Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Quotes

Only flies have true halteres. In fact, the scientific term for flies, 'diptera,' means 'two wings.' Most insects, including bees, have two pairs of wings for a total of four. In flies, the hindwing pairs have been transformed through evolution into the halteres.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.

If I like something, I then have to study every single aspect of it to find out if there's more things that I would like, and it's just this weird hunger to want more. I always feel like there's so much that exists.

Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next.

Collecting is my passion.

The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.

Brazil, I'm totally obsessed. I've been going since I was 17, and the first time I went, I fell in love with it.

If we understand the worm, we understand life.

Geekiness is that feeling of overwhelming passion for that thing in life that you focus on. Whether it be a nephew's first few steps or the timbre in one's voice when discussing the latest Cohen brothers film.

I tend to obsess over my passions.

When something really grabs me, I dive into it.

All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I was a little kid, I hadn't afforded myself the opportunity, I guess, to have a hobby.

I am passionately devoted to the study of life, and particularly to the higher forms of life.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It's either growing or it's dying. No matter if it's a tree or a human being.

Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

Oh yes, I love gadgets.

Since I was a kid, I've always been obsessed with animation.

I had fallen in love with doing television.

You should enter science because you are fascinated by it. That's what I did.

I fell in love with electricity.

Design is my biggest love. It consumes me!

I mean, everything that is upon this earth, even from a worm or a caterpillar that blossoms into a butterfly, you know, these things are just amazing.

I have only one passion in life - cinema.

I don't think you pick your projects; you just fall in love with it, and it just becomes something you have to do.