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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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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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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I don't think I would have written a combat novel if I had just had peacetime military training. I think, in fact, I probably would have remained a poet and just written a short story every now and then.
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Eroticism is born at a time in civilisation when sexual instinct becomes deanimalised and enriched with contributions from art and from literature. A world of theatricality emerges around the act of love.
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I'd like to keep work work and life life. It means you've got your life to come back to, somewhere to come home to at night that isn't invaded by your day.
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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
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If we can clean up our world, I'll bet you we can achieve warp drive.
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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.
