Ernest Rutherford (1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson) Quotes
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Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for 'Seesaw Girl,' eight months for 'Shard,' three years for 'When My Name Was Keoko!' The publisher takes another year and a half to work on the book, so altogether each book can take up to three or four years to publish.
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Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.
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Take your inspiration from wherever you find it, no matter how ridiculous.
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Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries.
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Suffering without faith would be like love without hope.
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Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.
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I try to take care of myself as much as possible.
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Being aggressive is a lot less risky in the end. Are you going to eat your lunch, or have your lunch eaten for you.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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I'm a big tandem bike rider... I've had a tandem bike since I was 12, and I wanna be a competitive tandem bike rider one day.
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It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.
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I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death.
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Parents want their kids’ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents’ approval.
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I want to question the images that are in our memory. There is always a double level in my work; what you see is true and at the same time not true.
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An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.
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I'm found of what's called emergence - as the universe gets more complex, new laws can emerge. Like evolution - there's things that you just aren't able to explain, even if you had an understanding of atoms.
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The chemists who uphold dualism are far from being agreed among themselves; nevertheless, all of them in maintaining their opinion, rely upon the phenomena of chemical reactions. For a long time the uncertainty of this method has been pointed out: it has been shown repeatedly, that the atoms put into movement during a reaction take at that time a new arrangement, and that it is impossible to deduce the old arrangement from the new one. It is as if, in the middle of a game of chess, after the disarrangement of all the pieces, one of the players should wish, from the inspection of the new place occupied by each piece, to determine that which it originally occupied.
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Now I know what the atom looks like.
