Cesare Beccaria

No man ever freely surrendered a portion of his own liberty for the sake of the public good; such a chimera appears only in fiction. If it were possible, we would each prefer that the pacts binding others did not bind us; every man sees himself as the centre of all the world's affairs.

Italian Judge

Jed Mercurio

I would compare my 'Frankenstein' to Cronenberg's remake of 'The Fly.' The monster in the original Fifties version of 'The Fly' was a crude, anatomical combination of man and insect, whereas Cronenberg's version exploited knowledge of DNA to depict him as a transgenic chimera.

British Writer

Leslie Stephen

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.

English Author

Cynthia Ozick

Sometimes writing has to be forced. In starting out, the shape and timbre and texture of what is to come is an uncertain chimera shimmering from behind a veil. You must not wait, loiter, dilly-dally. You must force your way painfully through.

American Novelist

Will Self

Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera: septuagenarians with apoptosis sporting the depeche mode.

Susannah Cahalan

In Greek myth, a chimera is a creepy combination of lion, goat, dragon - in humans, chimeras are one person who contains two sets of DNA. That's right. One person comes up in tests as two different people.

American Journalist

Alex Tabarrok

Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.

Canadian Economist

Sarah Hall

I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown.

English Writer

Janos Bolyai

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.

Hungarian Mathematician

Used to express a dream or goal that's unrealistic and cannot be achieved.

Unattainable Ideal

It carries a negative tone, suggesting disappointment or foolishness in pursuing such a goal.

Negative Connotation

Frequently used metaphorically in discussions about unachievable societal or personal ideals.

Metaphorical Usage

Brings mythical and dramatic imagery when referencing something monstrous or frightening.

Mythical Allusion

Can be used figuratively to describe something wildly imaginative or elusive.

Figurative Potential

Refers to a specific scientific phenomenon, avoid using it loosely in non-scientific contexts.

Scientific Precision

It's a modern term in biology with increasing importance due to advances in genetic engineering.

Modern Relevance

 have enough time to go into technical details I'll just show you some of the experiments so this is all over the early feasibility experience we store potential energy to the elastic skin to make it move or use active tension course when they can move forward and backward it's called chimera we also have been working with some scientists and

My seven species of...

 where chimera is an amalgam of three different animals. Individuals with chimerism might have two-toned skin or hair, or two different colored eyes, but most are believed to have no visible signs of the condition. Chimerism can come from a twin in utero, from a tissue or organ transplant,

You could have a secret...

 that had a lion's head, a goat's body and a serpent's tail. It was called "Chimera"- a name that has now come to be used for something that contains two or more different types of tissues or cells. As this newly engineered cell's genetic code is part T-cell, part antibody,

How to biohack your...

 Let's have some risks. Like every powerful technology, like electricity, like an automobile, like computers, this stuff potentially can be misused. And that scares a lot of people. And as you apply these technologies, you can even turn human beings into chimeras.

We can reprogram life....

 small they can fit in the palm your hand and finally we're in the right place at the right time in a rarely seen occurrence we capture a female chimera in the process of releasing her eggs see those twin sacs coming out of her body

Strange Japanese Sea...

 The result is a chimera, a fantastic fire-breathing creature from Greek mythology, with a lion's head, a goat's body and a serpent's tail. So we decided that the paradoxical thing that we had created

A "living drug" that...

 the right time in a rarely seen occurrence we capture a female chimera in the process of releasing her eggs see those twin sacs coming out of her body what will technology help us discover eggs

They're Baaaack -...

 and finally we're in the right place at the right time and a rarely seen occurrence we capture a female chimera in the process of releasing her eggs see those twin sacs coming out of her body

 Bearing down upon them is a whirlwind. A chimera of storm clouds and plastic rubbish and burning trees. A monster made of hot dust and angry water. People scream and run,

A Sci-Fi Story of...

 there's a chimera a mysterious predator also called a ghost shark that's related to both sharks and rays hey wait a minute could it be an even rarer Pacific