Richard Smalley Quotes
Administrators and scientists are excited by buckyballs for their own sake, and if they turn out to have practical applications, so much the better.
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The Dutch are a very practical people.
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There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it.
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Certainly Microsoft is going to be a big force in collaboration applications and we are working with them in that area. But in terms of real-time voice and video-based collaboration, where you have to deal with all the issues associated with a pleasant and easy experience with voice and with video, we think that takes a systems company not just a software company to do it right.
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We've had over 100 calls from kids or parents. We've had 12 informational sessions in all three cities in the past one or two months, so applications are coming in every day. We have 30 spots left to offer in the first class. If people are interested in applying, now is definitely the time.
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It's all Ati. Now, let's be practical.
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I'll probably buy practical things, ... Groceries, gas.
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Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research.
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An important fraction of United States industry adheres to the idea that research of a fundamental character is worthwhile from a practical point of view.
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The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befall us.
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The romantic, spendthrift moral act is ultimately the practical one—the practical, expendient, cozy-dog move is the one that comes to grief.
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To some men knowledge of the universe has been an end possessing in itself a value that is absolute: to others it has seemed a means of useful applications.
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Whether I'm at home and researching online or whether I'm in the studio just drawing, I think I'm more interested in practical research - discussing with other people, trying to find the exact formula of putting things on the canvas, what is the consistency of paint that works best.
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Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.
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I think one of the most interesting things about automation isn't on the practical side. I think it's about creating magic and wonder and moments of splendor.
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When an idea is idiotic to begin with, its applications never make any sense.
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We could take these products off the market tomorrow, we don't need the applications.
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The thing I like about 'Nashville,' it just happens to be about musicians, and all the music is practical, meaning it's performed at a concert or during a rehearsal.
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The first light-field camera array I saw at Stanford had a bunch of applications, like to do special effects like you see in 'The Matrix,' where you spin the camera around in frozen motion. It took up an entire room.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Being actors is a strange job.
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I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.
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Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated -- serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.
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We can’t say why we search, except that there seems to be an innate need, in each human being, to know who one is, what we’re here for, how to live more poetically.
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Administrators and scientists are excited by buckyballs for their own sake, and if they turn out to have practical applications, so much the better.
