Arnold Sommerfeld Quotes

If you want to be a physicist, you must do three things-first, study mathematics, second, study more mathematics, and third, do the same.

Arnold Sommerfeld

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• Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.

  

  Ori Gersht
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• If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
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• Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

  

  G. H. Hardy
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• Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
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• I think 'In The Heat Of The Night' was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back now, I can see how influential it was on my screenwriting because here you have what looks to be a crime procedural, and it's actually a study in race and loneliness, and a perception of an era.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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• More than 13,000 Malaysians travel to the U.K. to study in British universities every year.

  

  Najib Razak
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• My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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• I make it a point to study the character I do, and if the story demands that I wear a particular outfit, I'm game.

  

  Hansika Motwani
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• Enzymologists usually study the initial rates of reactions measuring product formation as a function of substrate concentration or other variable. Cell biologists are more likely to want to know the effect of a change on the steady state behavior of a complex system.

  

  Irwin Rose
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• The question I propose to consider is in what way one may justify the study of English on cultural and disciplinary, and not merely on sentimental or utilitarian, grounds. My own conviction is that if English is to be thus justified it must be primarily by what I am terming the discipline of ideas.

  

  Irving Babbitt
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• The study of nature is of no significance, for painting is a conventional art, and it is infinitely more worthwhile to learn to draw after w:Holbein.

  

  Edgar Degas
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• Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind.

  

  Bertrand Russell
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• Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. The study of this Book is forbidden. It is wise to destroy this copy after the first reading. Whosoever disregards this does so at his own risk and peril. These are most dire.

  

  Aleister Crowley
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• And oh you got so much going for you, going right.But I know at 17 it's hard to see past Friday night.I wish you'd study Spanish,I wish you'd take a typing class.I wish you wouldn't worry, let it be.I'd say have a little faith and you'll see.If I could write a letter to me.

  

  Brad Paisley
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• Public policy is a study in imperfection. It involves imperfect people, with imperfect information, facing deeply imperfect choices - so it's not surprising that they're getting imperfect results.

  

  Jake Sullivan
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• As a kid, I just loved cartoons. And as the credits went by, I'd study those names and then try to figure how I could get hired to do what Mel Blanc and Daws Butler did. Create all of these great voices for animated characters.

  

  Jim Cummings
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• Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question.

  

  Emily Greene Balch
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• The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.

  

  Jesse Helms
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• Nobody wants to sit there and study lyrics the whole time, driving back from work when they just got their check after a long shift. It's not the same. Everybody just wants to be happy with life.

  

  O. T. Genasis
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• War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.

  

  Frans de Waal
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• A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexuality, and that breaks my heart, because they're going to have to - high school's hard enough to overcome. Middle school is hard enough to overcome when we get out of it. They say life is what you spend your time getting over because of high school, you know what I mean?

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
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• If you want to be a physicist, you must do three things-first, study mathematics, second, study more mathematics, and third, do the same.

  

  Arnold Sommerfeld
  • Study
  • Mathematics
  • Physicist