Sidney Altman Quotes

The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old.

Sidney Altman

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• People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • Place
  • Importance

• It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.

  

  Larry Page
  • Way
  • Importance
  • Complicated

• If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. … I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Musician

• Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Succeed
  • Finger
  • Bomb

• ‎The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Danger
  • Terrorists
  • Bomb

• We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Space
  • Importance
  • Pioneers

• I just went to work for a vampire, was scared by a spider, and got knocked down by a tanning bomb. And that’s just my day, not my week.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Work
  • Vampire
  • Bomb

• I am deeply shocked by the news of this bomb, and I extend my sympathies to all who have been injured. Details of exactly what has happened and the nature of the injuries are not clear.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Nature
  • Injuries
  • Bomb

• To eat or be eaten, to escape or be takena matter of utmost importance to the one concerned, yet it happens all the time and we don't even notice.

  

  Nahoko Uehashi
  • Time
  • Matter
  • Concerned

• I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Art
  • Storyteller
  • Novelist

• It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Strange
  • Importance
  • Obsessed

• The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Future
  • Man
  • Past

• No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Theory
  • Importance

• The art of moviemaking seems to get thrown away. The cinematography is gone, and the look of everything becomes of little importance. You lose the memorable images; everything looks like it's been shot at night with a security camera.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Art
  • Night
  • Importance

• Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Nothing
  • Importance
  • Actually

• The ruling class isn't dissatisfied: they are healthy, well-fed, live in beauty, enjoy their own importance: fun-loving cannibals.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Live
  • Fun
  • Beauty

• I have always been conscious of the importance and the strength of nationalism, and this has led me straight to the acknowledgment of the nationalism of the Palestinian people.

  

  Uri Avnery
  • People
  • Conscious
  • Importance

• What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Thinking
  • inspirational
  • Importance

• I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed.

  

  Burton Silverman
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Paint

• I can recognize a good actor. I can recognize someone that can convey emotion and that has the essence and not get lost in the minutia of, 'Well, that person's got red hair, and so does the other.' Some of the decisions in casting that seem so important at the time, until you get on set and you're starting to shoot.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Time
  • Good
  • Important

• People were destined for one another; that's the romantic idea that young girls have, and I guess part of me still believes it.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • People
  • Romantic
  • Girls

• I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a White man from dust, a n*gger from mud, then He threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman. He does hate Chinese and Japs. So do I. It is race prejudice, I guess. But I am strongly of the opinion Negroes ought to be in Africa, Yellow men in Asia and White men in Europe and America.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Dust
  • White Man
  • Chinaman

• The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old.

  

  Sidney Altman
  • Importance
  • Bomb
  • Mystique