Petri Quotes

Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism. (Robert D. Kaplan)
That's what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It's a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion's not about being holy...Just holier-than-thous. View quote
Jodi Picoult
Look, did you ask me to come all the way uptown just so you could stare at me like I was something in a petri dish? Next time I'll send you a photo." "And I'll frame it and put it on my nightstand," said Jace. View quote
Cassandra Clare
[Computer science] is not really about computers -- and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not about microscopes and Petri dishes...and geometry isn't really about using surveying instruments. Now the reason that we think computer science is about computers is pretty much the same reason that the Egyptians thought geometry was about surveying instruments: when some field is just getting started and you don't really understand it very well, it's very easy to confuse the essence of what you're doing with the tools that you use. View quote
Hal Abelson
We call ourselves ‘the Fight Club.' You don't come to us for warm and fuzzy. We think of ourselves as virulently anti-establishment, particularly ‘anti-' the permanent political class. We say Paul Ryan was grown in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation. We hire people who are freaks. They don't have social lives. They're junkies about news and information. View quote
Steve Bannon
A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear. View quote
Oscar Isaac
I may be the only person in the world who has my own embryonic cells growing in a petri dish. View quote
Peter Nygard
It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism. View quote
Max Lucado
It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
I seek to lead a democratic Pakistan which is free from the yoke of military dictatorship and that will cease to be a haven, the very petri dish of international terrorism. View quote
Benazir Bhutto
Rather than plug a piece of hardware into our gray matter, how much more elegant to extract some brain cells, plop them into a Petri dish, and graft on various sorts of gelatinous computing goo. Slug it all back into the skull and watch it run on blood sugar, the way a human brain's supposed to. (William Gibson)