Ivar Giaever Quotes

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Ivar Giaever

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• There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Truth
  • Parents

• The growth in emissions is coming from the developing world. So if we are going to get out of this, it's going to come out of a process of cooperation and collaboration. That's why it really requires a paradigm shift.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • World
  • Why
  • Growth

• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Book
  • Remember

• Success in Iraq will be a major setback for terrorists and a major asset for the security of this region. The struggle for Iraq is the struggle for the future of the world.

  

  Zalmay Khalilzad
  • World
  • Future
  • Success

• 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
  • World
  • Great
  • Culture

• 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
  • World
  • Important
  • Respect

• A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• 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
  • Truth
  • Picture

• '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
  • World
  • Good
  • Believe

• 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
  • Great
  • May
  • Truth

• It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

  

  Frederik Pohl
  • Science

• I just really love the game. I'm very hungry, and I'm looking forward to playing in the best league in the world.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • World
  • Game

• Researching real history has taught me to be bolder and more imaginative in building fantasy worlds and writing fantasy characters, to seek out the margins of history and the forgotten tales that illuminate the whole, complex truth of our flawed yet wondrous nature as a species.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Truth

• People say you can't change the world. But you can change people.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • People
  • World

• I don't know if I would have the same take on world matters and social issues if I were not gay.

  

  Don Lemon
  • World
  • Gay

• There is a design behind the world that we are living in, which is veiled to most of us most of the time, but every once in a while, you catch a glimpse of it.

  

  Mark Frost
  • Time
  • World
  • Design

• One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.

  

  Jennifer Doudna
  • World
  • Women
  • Leadership

• There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface.

  

  Bill Viola
  • World

• There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have lived relatively comfortable, middle class lives. They function perfectly well in the world, but you can imagine, given a nasty parent, or a prolonged bout of unemployment, how their potential for craziness might have been realized.

  

  Zoë Heller
  • World
  • Parent
  • Imagine

• I do like things the way that I like them. But I'm trying not to be - I don't wanna be that way. I'm not a control freak; I wanna protect my agency. It's a weird question as a black woman.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • Trying
  • Black
  • Control

• I want to make sure that I make music that lasts. I've been experimenting. I've been writing.

  

  David Archuleta
  • Music
  • Writing

• If I say, "I am a monk." or "I am a Buddhist," these are, in comparison to my nature as a human being, temporary. To be human is basic.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Nature
  • Humans
  • Buddhist

• Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

  

  Ivar Giaever
  • World
  • Truth
  • Science