Alice liked to wear plaids and ripped jeans, and listen to grunge.

1982, Charles R. Schrader, Amicide: The Problem of Friendly Fire in Modern War:

A gene involved in cell division which is named because it makes the cells look like a `whole bunch of cookie monster eyes'.

Scientists considered collectively are remarkably single-minded in their views about what is important and what is not. If a graduate student gives a seminar and no one comes or no one asks a question, it is very sad, but not so sad as the question gallantly put by a senior or a colleague that betrays that he hasn't listened to a word. But it is a warning sign, a shot across the bows.