Philip Morrison Quotes
My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.
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My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.
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One of my strengths is connecting with the players.
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I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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It is important to realize that the market economy, though it is associated historically with the rise of modern private capitalism, is as a mechanism not necessarily limited to that system.
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In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
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Seattle is a place I've lived only a couple of years, but I feel like I've been adopted by this city. It's like a hug. I've been recognized on planes, in the airport and by cabdrivers. I don't get that anywhere else in the country.
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Essentially I am interested in this world, in this life, not in some other world or future life. Whether there is such a thing as soul, or whether there is survival after death or not, I do not know; and important as these questions are, they do not trouble me the least.
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My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.
