Ivar Giaever Quotes
Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.
Ivar Giaever
Quotes to Explore
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We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.
Zachary Quinto
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
Hans Hofmann
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A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.
Edgar Degas
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'The thing is to be happy,' he said. 'No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, and you're just there, going along easy in the world.'
Alice Munro
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A conscience that is only sluggish, may submit to truth when it happens to meet with it: but a conscience under the seductions of passion, will not submit to it without great difficulty, and will devise some pretext, some expedient, for resisting the voice of truth that openly rebukes it.
Alexandre Vinet
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I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.
Viola Davis
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I don't like the idea of fitting into a mould so as to conform. What I like is the danger, the difference - being unpredictable.
Emmanuelle Seigner
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For me, I like old-school rap music. There was a time when music was so, so rich overall, and the content of what people talked about was so deep on every level, song-for-song, pound-for-pound, and on radio, there was so much content. I gravitate more towards that type of music, to be honest.
Ciara
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How do I remain what is called 'normal'? Because for me it's the natural thing to do, and therefore easier than doing something else.
Irene Dunne
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The man who satisfies a ceaseless intellectual curiousity probably squeezes more out of life in the long run than anyone else.
Edmund Gosse
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Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.
Ivar Giaever