Ernest Lawrence Quotes
The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work. Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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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.
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What did we want out of Iraq? We wanted a country that was stable and secure, that elected its own government, that was not going to be a threat to its neighbors and also was capable of protecting and defending itself. That was our objective in Iraq.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.
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You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.
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I love Wales, and Cardiff is great, but if I could just have the weather we have in California, it would be perfect.
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This president goes into office with more expectations than any president I can ever remember in my lifetime.-2008
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There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.
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'Women's intuition' wasn't intuition at all, it was heightened observation, unconscious registration of subtle clues.
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Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research program.
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Neil Cavuto a Fox News Senior Vice President (and anchor), I'm not the one using profanity on the air. I'm not the one interrupting the guest to show incredible rudeness on the air. I'm simply the one trying to answer your questions and make America a better place.
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Katherine Mary, we're going to know each other very wel, for many years, I hope. You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life. Your sergeant coming home, a good dinner, your little Mary laughing, the smell of the woods- oh, so many things, you know them yourself.
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I haven't really looked either way. At the minute, I'm just enjoying each training and each game now that we're playing and I'll just sit down with the powers that be at the Swans and work out which way we want to go.
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(Djinn are essentially vapor.) "I blew him away.
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Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts... it can help deal with modern life, which is increasingly complex.
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What we want is a social harmony, even as we live in a world where any idea about 'the real thing' is as likely to evoke the ancient memory of an advertisement for a soda pop as anything solid or necessary.
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The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work. Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale.
