Burton Richter Quotes

Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

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• When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
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• We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.

  

  Kage Baker
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• I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
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  • Time
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• Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Work
  • America
  • Education

• We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.

  

  Dan Hawkins
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  • Long
  • Career

• If you bet on Microsoft, you are not going to ask anymore, 'Hey, where is the innovation?' The challenge going forward is how do we keep up with it.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
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  • You
  • Challenge

• My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Up
  • Long
  • Night

• We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Support

• I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.

  

  Candace Bushnell
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  • You
  • Difficult

• The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Happy
  • Earth
  • Culture

• I don't know what drives me, I don't have a clue, but I'm driven more today than I ever have been.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Today
  • Know
  • Me

• One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away.

  

  Candice Olson
  • People
  • Children
  • Change

• When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Writing
  • Fool
  • Laughing

• Getting kids moving is a key factor in tackling obesity and health problems among the young.

  

  Magnus Scheving
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  • Health
  • Moving

• So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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  • Direction

• Sanctions did indeed help to bring Iran to the negotiating table. But sanctions did not stop the advance of Iran's nuclear program. Negotiations have done that, and it is in our interest not to deny ourselves the chance to achieve a long-term, comprehensive solution that would deny Iran a nuclear weapon.

  

  Samantha Power
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• Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

  

  Aaron Allston
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  • Magic
  • Sufficiently

• Finding a store that sells synthetic hair in Kigali is easier than locating a Starbucks in New York City without Google Maps.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
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  • Hair

• Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.

  

  George R. R. Martin
  • Science

• We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Actor
  • Entertainment
  • Joke

• The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly.

  

  Dorothy Denning
  • Strong

• Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Arbitrary

• Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

  

  Burton Richter
  • Long
  • Science
  • Moving