Saul Perlmutter Quotes

Your job as a scientist is to figure out how you're fooling yourself.

Saul Perlmutter

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• I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Life
  • Rest
  • My Life

• I think long-term, Bitcoin is a currency of the Internet. So, even if humans don't use it, routers will use it. Web browsers will use it. Web servers will use it.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Long
  • Think
  • Internet

• I will fly around the world doing good for the environment.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • World
  • Good
  • Environment

• The wise decision by President Obama to grant some undocumented immigrants the right to remain in the United States for two years without the threat of deportation is already benefitting the country.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Country
  • Decision
  • Wise

• Your anger will cool into hardened passionate insight if you wait a day. Most of the things that make me angry I let them sit. The heat that remains will be sufficient. The stuff that evaporates is the stuff that would have simply offended or made it histrionic.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Cool
  • Angry
  • Passionate

• If the vision is there, the means will follow.

  

  Faith Popcorn
  • Mean
  • Vision
  • Ifs

• Over the last 10 years, India's perception has gone from being a beggar country to an economic superpower.

  

  Vivek Wadhwa
  • Country
  • Perception
  • Economic

• The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Party
  • Discipline
  • Half

• When in many dissections, carried out as opportunity offered upon living animals, I first addressed my mind to seeing how I could discover the function and offices of the heart's movement in animals through the use of my own eyes instead of through the books and writings of others, I kept finding the matter so truly hard and beset with difficulties that I all but thought, with Fracastoro, that the heart's movement had been understood by God alone.

  

  William Harvey
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Book

• I think that the influence towards suppression of minority views - towards orthodoxy in thinking about public issues - has been more subconscious than unconscious, stemming to a very great extent from the tendency of Americans to conform...not to deviate or depart from an orthodox point of view.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Thinking
  • Justice
  • Influence

• The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Eagles
  • Abrupt note

• I have a checkered past. I'll take any eyeliner that comes my way.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Way
  • Comes
  • Eyeliner

• He Rubio is so knowledgeable about this issue ... I'm glad to see somebody with his background step forward and say it's important and we need to look at it.

  

  Saxby Chambliss
  • Important
  • Glad
  • Knowledgeable

• It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously with the horn. It’s a wonderful thing to speak extemporaneously, which is something I’ve never gotten the hang of. But musically I love to talk just off the top of my head. And that’s what jazz music is all about.

  

  Stan Getz
  • Music
  • Language
  • Speak

• The word "necessary" is miserably applied. It disordereth families, and overturneth government, by being so abused. Remember that children and fools want everything because they want judgment to distinguish; and therefore there is no stronger evidence of a crazy understanding than the making too large a catalogue of things necessary.

  

  Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Crazy

• I could get into bed with James Bond, then take my false leg off and it would really be a gun.

  

  Heather Mills
  • Gun
  • James Bond
  • False leg

• As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes, who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Animal
  • Inspiration
  • Poor

• Being an ordinary scientist and an ordinary Christian seems perfectly natural to me. It is also perfectly natural for the many scientists I know who are also people of deep religious faith.

  

  William Daniel Phillips
  • Christian
  • Religious
  • Atheism

• As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice--there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community. To discover how scientific revolutions are effected, we shall therefore have to examine not only the impact of nature and of logic, but also the techniques of persuasive argumentation effective within the quite special groups that constitute the community of scientists.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Science
  • Political
  • Community

• Your job as a scientist is to figure out how you're fooling yourself.

  

  Saul Perlmutter
  • Scientist