Rainer Weiss Quotes

The waves travel with the velocity of light and slightly squeeze and stretch space transverse to the direction of their motion. The first waves we measured came from the collision of two black holes each about 30 times the mass of our sun.

Rainer Weiss

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• The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Time
  • Man
  • Risk

• The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Long
  • Children

• Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Been
  • Balkans

• It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
  • Attention

• I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Work
  • Progress
  • Acting

• I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.

  

  Washed Out
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Limit

• I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Work
  • Support
  • Excited

• I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more!

  

  Faith Hill
  • Up
  • Good
  • Food

• I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Space
  • Acting
  • Summer

• I've teamed up with one of the headmasters at Eton College, and we're spearheading a kind of 'slow education movement in Britain'. It's based on this idea of moving away from the fast-food approach to learning and going to something deeper, more woolly, harder to measure.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Up
  • Education
  • Food

• I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Thought
  • Dreams
  • Loved

• Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Success
  • Effort

• A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • Work
  • Mind

• A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Children
  • School
  • Parents

• I don't really like to promote anything, but I will promote things I believe in and things that work.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Work
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Guy
  • Risk
  • Commitment

• To make war, you had to be filled with love, with a vehement passion, exalted, intoxicated, otherwise the whole thing was inhuman and absurd.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • War
  • Passion

• A lot of sexual harassment stuff in the news, and I couldn't help but notice a very disturbing pattern emerging, which is that many of the predators, not all, but many of them are Jews

  

  Larry David
  • Help

• All the Buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be - don't try to become. Within these two words - being and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Life
  • Words
  • Simple

• Nay, if there's room for poets in the worldA little overgrown, (I think there is)Their sole work is to represent the age,Their age, not Charlemagne's, - this live, throbbing age,That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires,And spends more passion, more heroic heat,Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms,Than Roland with his knights, at Roncesvalles.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Work
  • Live
  • Age

• I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • War
  • Look
  • Month

• Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit of looking down upon their fellow creatures with contempt, esteeming them as dogs or devils, and imagining themselves beings of superior dignity and importance, to whom all are indebted. This banishes the idea, and unqualifies the mind for the practice of common justice.

  

  David Rice
  • Justice
  • Practice
  • Dog

• I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

  

  Daniel Silva
  • Up
  • War
  • History

• The waves travel with the velocity of light and slightly squeeze and stretch space transverse to the direction of their motion. The first waves we measured came from the collision of two black holes each about 30 times the mass of our sun.

  

  Rainer Weiss
  • Space
  • Direction
  • Came