Specimen Quotes

ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil. - Ambrose Bierce

You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold. - Lennart Nilsson

Winding down? You never can tell with him... He's such a specimen athletically. I've seen, up close, what he's capable of and he still has some burst. - Peyton Manning

What excited me is we have a specimen with new information we didn't know before. We can try to learn about their behavior, how they lived. - Alexander Kellner

We've now got about 10 Neanderthal specimens of around 40-50,000 years old that have yielded DNA that is clearly distinct from anyone alive today. - Chris Stringer

We start a lot form Tom's feet at center back. Stefan takes over at the midfield and controls things from that point on. He's more or less the distribution source for everything. And Jon and Steve are just really solid workhorses in the midfield. They could play in every minute of every game and through overtime. They're just real fit specimens. - Don Haddox

We sometimes freeze the specimen with liquid nitrogen, which is extremely cold, you know. This is another technique we use now - but the specimens are not alive. - Lennart Nilsson

We gave them a specimen. Unfortunately, it was just one leg... Now they want more. - Jack Horner

We believe it originated in Africa because frogs here have a local resistance to the fungus, and we have the oldest frog specimens with the disease anywhere in the world. - Che Weldon