Frits Zernike Quotes

With the phase-contrast method still in the first somewhat primitive stage, I went in 1932 to the Zeiss Works in Jena to demonstrate. It was not received with such enthusiasm as I had expected.

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• Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Up
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  • Small

• The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Women
  • Battle
  • Goddess

• I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.

  

  Vernon Jordan
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• I'm such a perfectionist.

  

  Candice Glover
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• I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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• My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
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• Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

  

  Abraham Cowley
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  • Sin

• We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
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  • Young

• Amazon is not a monopoly or a monopsony, and even if it were, that by itself isn't illegal.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Even
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  • Were

• I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • End
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  • Champions

• It is possible that the digital world may change the need for physical branches. We will continue to add branches incrementally, but we will reach a point - whether it is 1,500, 1,800 or 2,000 branches - where we will say enough is enough.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • World
  • May
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• Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Music
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  • Piano

• I can live without bread, but I can't live without freedom.

  

  Said Nursi
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• I try to be really conscious. I don't want to ever look back and regret not raising my kids and not being around.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Kids
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• What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
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• Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• I implore you to see the universe as a warm and supportive one because you'll look for evidence to support this view. When you anticipate that the universe is friendly, you see friendly people. You look for circumstances to work in your favor. You anticipate good fortune flowing into your life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• I don't think 'my way or the highway' works, that mentality. And that's what the Tea Party has done: drawn a line in the sand. I'm sorry - that doesn't work in business, that doesn't work in your family, it certainly doesn't work in government and our Congress.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • Work
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• The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here. In fact, we're trying to keep a huge juggling act in balance, with the tower as just one of the many balls in play.

  

  Daniel Libeskind
  • Trying
  • Freedom
  • Balance

• Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

  

  Susan Beth Pfeffer
  • Work
  • Rules
  • Anarchy

• I've never felt stigmatized in my profession, nor have I allowed myself to. I don't feel either male or female, I feel I am just me, and I should be able to do whatever I like.

  

  Miranda Richardson
  • Feels
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• I've been on a lot of shows that nobody cared about.

  

  James Denton

• The less you 'think' you know, the greater your ability to learn and grow.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Thinking
  • Wake Up
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• With the phase-contrast method still in the first somewhat primitive stage, I went in 1932 to the Zeiss Works in Jena to demonstrate. It was not received with such enthusiasm as I had expected.

  

  Frits Zernike