Ivar Giaever Quotes
'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.
Ivar Giaever
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Racist people, interestingly, are never as polite as smokers. Have you noticed that? Smokers always go, 'Do you mind if I smoke? Oh, you do? Okay, I'll go outside and have a cigarette.' Racist people never go, 'Do you mind if I'm racist? Oh, I'll go outside … fucking blue people, eh? Coming here, steal our hamsters …'
Eddie Izzard
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Is anything more certain than that in all those vast times and spaces, if I were allowed to search them, I should nowhere find her face, her voice, her touch? She died. She is dead. Is the word so difficult to learn?
C. S. Lewis
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Laws with broad definitions of rape are like laws making 55 mile per hour speed limits for men and no speed limits for women.
Warren Farrell
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Men's wishes are not always vain, nor is every life too brief to satisfy its possessor. Only when we attempt, from the point of view permitted by physics and biology, to sum up the possibilities of collective human endeavour, do we fully realise the 'vanity of vanities' proclaimed by the Preacher.
Arthur Balfour
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Hell, that's why they make erasers.
Clarence Darrow
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I love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time.
Clemence Poesy
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My interests drew me in different directions. On the one hand I was powerfully attracted by science, with its truths based on facts; on the other hand I was fascinated by everything to do with comparative religion. ... In science I missed the factor of meaning; and in religion, that of empiricism.
Carl Jung
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More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.
Lev Grossman
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I'm part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have a good time. When I walk into the meet-and-greet, someone's always going to have a story, a sad story or a happy story.
Dierks Bentley
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Could someone please tell me how this will affect me? Come on, this is Harvard, folks. I came all the way out here to learn this.
Jesse Ventura
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'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.
Ivar Giaever