William Henry Bragg Quotes
Broadly speaking, the discovery of X-rays has increased the keenness of our vision ten thousand times, and we can now 'see' the individual atoms and molecules.
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I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
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I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.
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And several galleries – two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.
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Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to.
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One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.
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Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?
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The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.
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Every four years, I'll watch figure skating, but I'm no closer to buying tights.
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The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a direct confrontation of nature by experiment and observation. But there was another feature of the new science-a dependence on numbers, on real numbers of actual experience.
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I tend to equate sadness with intelligence.
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People were going to read it and, I hoped, maybe some minds would be changed. Ultimately, almost everyone who read that book was already on my side, and the only thing it served to do was make people like me angrier.
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Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs.
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Adjective salad is delicious, with each element contributing its individual and unique flavor; but a puree of adjective soup tastes yecchy.
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Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.
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Broadly speaking, the discovery of X-rays has increased the keenness of our vision ten thousand times, and we can now 'see' the individual atoms and molecules.
