Manfred Eigen Quotes

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

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• If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Good
  • Movie
  • You

• I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Rest

• We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Need
  • Size

• Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Women
  • Service
  • Grow

• I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Friends
  • Beautiful

• I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Giving

• Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Character
  • Today
  • Effort

• I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Up
  • School
  • Remember

• Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Kids
  • Decision
  • Survival

• I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Life
  • Care
  • Gay

• I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Giving
  • Nice
  • Present

• They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Heaven
  • Come
  • Angels

• I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Up
  • Men
  • Country

• I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortable in my skin so that I do not need to dump any of my discomfort onto someone else in the form of judgment.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Judgment
  • Comfortable
  • Skin

• I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened.

  

  Maidie Norman
  • Career
  • Thought
  • Nothing

• Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Money
  • Wood
  • Corners

• My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Happy
  • Career
  • Beginning

• Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Life
  • Control
  • Government

• Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Road

• It was hard because theyre all so cute, ... They all did a really good job. It was tough to pick.

  

  Queen Christina
  • Good
  • Job
  • Hard

• Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn't feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Feeling
  • Path
  • Connection

• Everything changes once you start trying to market the film. Part of you feels like everything is slipping away from you. For me, I don't want people going to the theater thinking it's going to be a laugh-a-minute comedy, like a Will Ferrell film or something. Because it's not.

  

  Taika Waititi
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• Unto each one hath been prescribed a preordained measure, as decreed in God's mighty and guarded Tablets. All that which ye potentially possess can, however, be manifested only as a result of your own volition.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • God
  • Book
  • Holy

• A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

  

  Manfred Eigen
  • Path
  • Birth
  • Theory