If you take any flower you please and look it over and turn it about and smell it and feel it and try to find out all its little secrets, not of flower only but of leaf, bud and stem as well, you will discover many wonderful things. This is how you make friends with plants, and very good friends you will find them to the end of our lives.
Adult stem cells tend not to form tumors.
This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of idle chatter, and pour into our wounded bosoms the soothing balm of vengeance.
I would like people to understand the rationale for my embryonic stem cell research decision and how the process became distorted over time.
I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.
There is a melancholy that stems from greatness
When I was in high school, I was voted most likely to succeed.
Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it.
The lotus' stem is as long as the depth of water, So men's height is just as great as their inner strength.
Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.
If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird; for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world.
Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.
Embryonic stem cell research is at the leading edge of a series of moral hazards.
I do think it is very important that the religious communities do try to bring their teachings and their insights to bear on the stem cell debate and on the debate about genetic engineering.
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.
Every right has its responsibilities. Like the right itself, these responsibilities stem from no man-made law, but from the very nature of man and society. The security, progress and welfare of one group is measured finally in the security, progress and welfare of all mankind.
Adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.
Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.
Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful. But it isn't a given, and even if it were, I don't think the end justifies the means. I am not against stem cells, I think it's great. Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me-any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail. You cannot stop the human mind from working.
