It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent most of my career studying this phenomenon called bioluminescence. I study it because I think understanding it is critical to understanding life in the ocean where most bioluminescence occurs.
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EDITH WIDDER Squid experts have been debating for some time about whether the giant squid is a passive predator t... EDITH WIDDER I developed my camera system, called the Medusa, jointly with a colleague down in Australia as a met... EDITH WIDDER The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. ... EDITH WIDDER If I go out in the open ocean environment, virtually anywhere in the world, and I drag a net from 3,... EDITH WIDDER The time of declining working hours in the public sector in Germany is over. The train is going in t... GERHARD WIDDER The result is that the people in our cities will have to continue to endure the strike. GERHARD WIDDER True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. EDITH WHARTON As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the fac... EDITH PIAF What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them, and with th... 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EDITH STEIN The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elev... EDITH STEIN If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him. EDITH STEIN My longing for truth was a single prayer. EDITH STEIN This is a serious warning cry: Surrender without reservation to the Lord who has called us. This is ... EDITH STEIN Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever... EDITH SITWELL The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous... EDITH SITWELL The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. EDITH SITWELL I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am... EDITH SITWELL I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. EDITH SITWELL I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. EDITH SITWELL Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred a... EDITH SITWELL A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. EDITH SITWELL People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looki... EDITH SCHAEFFER The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from. EDITH ROGERS I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinki... EDITH ROGERS But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should conf... EDITH ROGERS The market town of Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, was a popular 19th - century English spa. Its min... EDITH PEARLMAN I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition b... EDITH PEARLMAN I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be... EDITH PEARLMAN I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity ... EDITH PEARLMAN There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifyin... EDITH PEARLMAN I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow. EDITH PEARLMAN Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobilit... EDITH PEARLMAN In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as ... EDITH PEARLMAN The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and pr... EDITH PEARLMAN I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devo... EDITH PEARLMAN I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you'... EDITH PEARLMAN I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, m... EDITH PEARLMAN The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future. EDITH PEARLMAN I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it w... EDITH PEARLMAN I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie. EDITH HEAD I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm be... EDITH HEAD I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie. EDITH HEAD With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women star... EDITH HEAD Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright col... EDITH HEAD Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap i... 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EDITH SITWELL Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the cho... EDITH WHARTON Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a... EDITH SITWELL The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! EDITH WHARTON The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, ... EDITH HAMILTON How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to... EDITH WHARTON An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope... EDITH WHARTON A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show... EDITH HAMILTON It makes sense that there is no sense without God. EDITH SCHAEFFER A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. 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yourself when you aren't. EDITH NESBIT Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. EDITH HAMILTON The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. EDITH WHARTON I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and c... EDITH WHARTON After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics ove... EDITH WHARTON My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. EDITH SITWELL The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. EDITH SITWELL Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heret... EDITH WHARTON Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing wh... EDITH WHARTON How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinctio... EDITH WHARTON Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with t... EDITH WHARTON In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual... EDITH WHARTON I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance. EDITH SITWELL I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself. EDITH SITWELL Poetry is the deification of reality. EDITH SITWELL My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life. EDITH SITWELL Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that whi... EDITH HAMILTON Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming t... EDITH HEAD Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analo... EDITH STEIN Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a... EDITH HEAD I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the auth... EDITH WHARTON I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears. EDITH PIAF My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet. EDITH WHARTON The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing. EDITH WHARTON Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct. EDITH HEAD Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young grateful... EDITH HEAD There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. EDITH WHARTON Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth. EDITH PIAF ...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all... EDITH WHARTON Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only cli... EDITH WHARTON When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man? EDITH EVANS The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have ... EDITH SITWELL Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'M... EDITH HEAD Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,'... EDITH PEARLMAN After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the cri... EDITH WHARTON Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins. EDITH WHARTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility,
then Athens ceased to be free... EDITH HAMILTON To be able to be caught up into the world of thought that is being educated. EDITH HAMILTON Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths? EDITH WHARTON As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must ... EDITH STEIN All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard. EDITH PEARLMAN An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope... EDITH WHARTON All I've done all my life is disobey. EDITH PIAF There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. EDITH WHARTON It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual... EDITH WHARTON A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes. EDITH HEAD