Nevill Francis Mott Quotes

All scientific theories are provisional and may be changed, but ... on the whole, they are accepted from Washington to Moscow because of their practical success. Where religion has opposed the findings of science, it has almost always had to retreat.

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• Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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• I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

  

  Rachel Field
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• The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011 was an immense tragedy that sparked a global response. The international community came forward with aid to the victims and came together to address the broader concerns about nuclear security and safety.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
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• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.

  

  Rachel Nichols
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• That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Why
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• I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.

  

  Raekwon
  • Time
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• I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
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  • Born

• It's clear there is an energy positive in producing ethanol.

  

  Patricia A. Woertz
  • Energy
  • Positive
  • Clear

• People remember my last name because it's different, and people remember me in meetings because I dress differently from other people just because I'm a woman. Those kinds of things give you an opportunity and a spotlight, so use that to your advantage. Use it as a platform to demonstrate your knowledge and your capabilities.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Knowledge

• I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Politics
  • Join

• When things go wrong, the standard management strategy is to decide who takes the blame. This should be an underling, as far down the chain as possible, but preferably with some visibility so people know management means business.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • People
  • Business
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• The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Life
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• By night an atheist half believes a God.

  

  Edward Young
  • God
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• I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.

  

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• Crowdsourcing aid is a cunning way to work around the do-nothing corridors of official Washington. But it also raises complicated questions about the nature of humanitarianism and what it means for a 'nation' to help.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
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• It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

  

  Branch Rickey
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• I went to Africa without the perspective of a balance between teaching people the truth, which has been my calling, and helping people who have physical problems, like AIDS and orphans and hunger.

  

  Bruce Wilkinson
  • People
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• I think you end up on the lucky side, or you don't.

  

  Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
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• I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.

  

  Maiwenn
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• Pnin slowly walked under solemn pines. The sky was dying. He did not believe in an autocratic God. He did believe, dimly, in a democracy of ghosts. The souls of the dead, perhaps, formed committees, and these, in continuous session, attended the destinies of the quick.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
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  • Soul
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• When I got into the end zone, I was so overcome with joy my mind went blank. I forgot everything my boys had showed me and I had to break down and celebrate with my teammates - the guys who helped me get there.

  

  Braylon Edwards
  • Joy
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• All scientific theories are provisional and may be changed, but ... on the whole, they are accepted from Washington to Moscow because of their practical success. Where religion has opposed the findings of science, it has almost always had to retreat.

  

  Nevill Francis Mott
  • Science
  • Religion
  • Theories