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
  • Importance

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The price pattern reminds you that every movement of importance is but a repetition of similar price movements, that just as soon as you can familiarize yourself with the actions of the past, you will be able to anticipate and act correctly and profitably upon forthcoming movements.

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • Past
  • Action
  • Importance

• I tell you what I really fear. I fear aeroplanes. When the flight's all right and smooth I'm still thinking, 'what if the engine blow up?' 'What if a fool's got a bomb on it?'

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Fear
  • Bomb
  • Aeroplanes

• But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying 'no' to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Up
  • World
  • Friends

• I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experience in a magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity.

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
  • God
  • Heart
  • Experience

• I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Want
  • Sides
  • Mainstream

• 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

• 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