John Polanyi Quotes
Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.
John Polanyi
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
Quincy Jones
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Walter Bagehot
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
Rachel Cusk
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People don't care about questionnaires.
Larry Hogan
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
Tammy Duckworth
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
Gaby Hoffmann
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How can this cosmic religious experience be communicated from man to man, if it cannot lead to a definite conception of God or to a theology? It seems to me that the most important function of art and of science is to arouse and keep alive this feeling in those who are receptive.
Albert Einstein
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While the male eye zooms in on a particular element to the exclusion of all else, a woman's gaze flickers from one tedious task to the next, to the point where we can't distinguish between the importance of mopping the kitchen floor and achieving world peace.
Mariella Frostrup
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
Oscar Peterson
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I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and really focusing on my music career.
Brantley Gilbert
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Michael Carpenter: I still can’t believe, that you came to the Vampires’ Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.Harry Dresden: Not only that, but a cheesy vampire.
Jim Butcher
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Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.
John Polanyi
