Victor Francis Hess Quotes
From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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'Coexist' was tough to make.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
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I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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I can't even remember the first time I started singing.
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My mother always accused me of being in love with the sound of my own voice. When we went on road trips, she'd be like, 'Stop singing. Be quiet, you're talking just to hear yourself speak.' It was probably true. I like to ramble on, which is probably why I'm well suited to interviews. You know, there's no other forum where you're literally supposed to sit down and just talk for hours about yourself. I love it.
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Jerusalem is all about a very special relationship between the ground and the sky. This work attempts to bring the two together.
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At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died.
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From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.
