Fritz Zwicky Quotes

Jupiter is so big and its gravitational pull so strong that man would find it difficult to move about on the surface. The answer is to whittle it down to proper size with terrajets and nuclear power, using the debris to increase the size of Jupiter's moons so they, too, can be colonized.

Fritz Zwicky

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• At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn't screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Up
  • Love
  • Power

• Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Great
  • Power

• The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Power
  • Church
  • Thought

• Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Happiness

• It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.

  

  Francesca Lia Block
  • World
  • Power
  • Woman

• I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Power
  • Strong
  • Connection

• The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Compassion

• Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Strong
  • Proud
  • Growth

• Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • God
  • May
  • Power

• Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Government
  • Organization

• Before we start filming, I have a strong idea of the look and the feel that I want to create, and I'm happy to explore any means that will help me achieve that.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • Happy
  • Help
  • Strong

• I really admire people who have a natural sense of style. They have a super power.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Power
  • Style

• Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Power
  • Wisdom

• The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Power
  • Future
  • Hands

• I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • God
  • Believe
  • Power

• I think it comes from far away inside me, to be strong to survive everything that comes my way. I think, going back to the beginning, feeling like an alien in an English school when I was eight, that set up my pride very early on. I think I'm very defensive, but I'm trying not to be like that anymore.

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Up
  • Trying
  • School

• The Constitution's pretty clear. The Federalist papers are pretty clear... They very specifically delegated the power to declare war to Congress. They wanted this to be a congressional decision; they did not want war to be engaged in by the executive without approval of Congress.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Power
  • War
  • Pretty

• In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Time
  • Power
  • Existence

• I believe the power to make money is a gift of God … to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.

  

  John D. Rockefeller
  • Good
  • God
  • Believe

• [X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to domesticate time (cinema), to preserve and capture the surface of the fleeting (photography), to see inside (x-ray).

  

  Walead Beshty
  • Time
  • Power
  • Desire

• I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path with it. I thought I saw Jimmy's soul all the time we worked. He never covered his soul and I never covered mine. We saw into each other's souls, very definitely.

  

  Kim Novak
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Path

• Ghettos and barrios and abusive homes and trauma wards may produce scarred souls; they can cripple more human spirits than they strengthen.

  

  John Ortberg
  • May

• Jupiter is so big and its gravitational pull so strong that man would find it difficult to move about on the surface. The answer is to whittle it down to proper size with terrajets and nuclear power, using the debris to increase the size of Jupiter's moons so they, too, can be colonized.

  

  Fritz Zwicky
  • Power
  • Strong