Paul Dirac Quotes

Scientific progress is measured in units of courage, not intelligence.

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• I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
  • History
  • Accidents

• I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Want
  • Enough
  • Mountains

• Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Children
  • Think
  • Parents

• I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Believe
  • Energy
  • Shift

• The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Time
  • Family
  • Society

• At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • City
  • Present
  • Thousand

• Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Heart
  • Business
  • Smart

• It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Simple
  • Always
  • Matter

• As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Time
  • Actor

• I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Try

• Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Truth
  • Light
  • Sought

• Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Culture
  • Powerful
  • Rich

• I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Science
  • Never
  • Fiction

• I think I can get away, sometimes, with walking in the streets and not getting noticed. I like that. I want my work to get noticed, not me. And it's slowly getting there, which is good.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Good
  • Work
  • Walking

• The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Action
  • Environmental

• I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Believe
  • Children
  • American

• Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Man
  • Political
  • Speech

• It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Good
  • Why
  • Basketball

• The morning sun Radiantly Rises above the frosty woods.

  

  Dakotsu Iida
  • Morning
  • Sun

• I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Mean
  • Friendship
  • Outside

• I think that I am a walking testimony to you can have scars. You can go through turbulent times and still have victory in your life.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Walking
  • Victory

• Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect.

  

  James Nasmyth

• My mother's father, Hobart Cromwell, was a bacteriologist with Abbott Laboratories in suburban Chicago. I never got to know him well, as he died very young, but he was always a heroic figure in our family, wise and gentle and intelligent by reputation, with the courage to fight against the McCarthyites.

  

  John C. Mather
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father

• Scientific progress is measured in units of courage, not intelligence.

  

  Paul Dirac
  • Progress
  • Courage
  • Intelligence