Simon van der Meer Quotes

Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset.

Simon van der Meer

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• I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Fool
  • Down
  • Feet

• We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Afraid
  • Common
  • Common Sense

• People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Money
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• Genome-based treatment, based on wider and cheaper availability of genome data, will provide new ways to customize the therapeutic protocol and enhance our control over diseases and medical treatment.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
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• The beloved objects that we had carried with us from place to place were now left behind in the wagon and, with them, finally, our illusions.

  

  Elie Wiesel

• Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

  

  Andy Grove
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• The evaluative habits developed in sibling interactions undoubtedly affect the salience and choice of comparative referents in self-ability evaluations in later life.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Life
  • Choice
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• To the extent that children with similar characteristics achieve comparable performance levels, using the performances of similar peers is likely to yield more accurate self-appraisal than using the accomplishments of dissimilar peers.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Children
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  • Characteristics

• The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy

  

  Albert Bandura
  • motivation
  • Performance
  • Effects

• I would rather die having spoken in my way, than live having spoken in yours.

  

  Albert Shanker
  • Live
  • Way
  • Die

• I think I tend to destroy the better paintings, or those that have been better to a certain extent. I try and take them further, and they lose all their qualities, and they lose everything. I think I would say that I destroy all the better paintings.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Destroy
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  • Paintings

• The issues of political nature should be solved in any country, including in Syria, primarily by its people.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Country
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• The path of a cosmonaut is not an easy, triumphant march to glory. You have to get to know the meaning not just of joy but also of grief, before being allowed in the spacecraft cabin.

  

  Yuri Gagarin
  • Joy
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  • Grief

• We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Fear
  • Revenge
  • Hates

• Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Science
  • Pain
  • Religion

• There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad ones are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover's quarrel with their country, a reflection of God's lover's quarrel with all the world.

  

  William Sloane Coffin
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  • Country
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• I was Europe's last chance.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Chance
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• When I was a child, I was very shy, and there's still a part of me that's very shy.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Children
  • Stills
  • Shy

• ‎Theorists of journalism have long noted parallels to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in physics: by reporting on something, one subtly but irrevocably changes it.

  

  Ben Yagoda
  • Changes
  • Journalism
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• I always direct next to the camera and watch my actors, and so you can see the small things that you can't see on the small screen but you can definitely see on the big screen.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Small
  • Camera
  • Small Things

• Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset.

  

  Simon van der Meer
  • Physics
  • Contributions
  • Accelerator