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.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • People
  • Practical
  • Dutch

• There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Always
  • Plans
  • Practical

• 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.

  

  Charles Giancarlo
  • Time
  • Real
  • Experience

• 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.

  

  Beth Anderson
  • People
  • Time
  • Kids

• It's all Ati. Now, let's be practical.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Practical
  • Ati

• I'll probably buy practical things, ... Groceries, gas.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Things
  • Gas
  • Practical

• 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.

  

  Aristotle
  • Skills
  • Developed
  • Practical

• 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.

  

  William Bradford Shockley Jr.
  • Industry
  • Point
  • States

• 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.

  

  John Calvin
  • Divine
  • Angels
  • Regard

• The romantic, spendthrift moral act is ultimately the practical one—the practical, expendient, cozy-dog move is the one that comes to grief.

  

  Anton Myrer
  • Moral
  • Grief
  • Act

• 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.

  

  Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
  • Knowledge
  • Universe
  • End

• 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.

  

  Camille Henrot
  • Research
  • Interested
  • Formula

• Corporate customers are choosing the Microsoft platform. Microsoft Office, SQL Server and Exchange all reached new highs this quarter, with shipments of all server applications nearly doubling in the past year.

  

  Bob Muglia
  • Customers
  • Applications
  • Microsoft Platform

• Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.

  

  David Perkins
  • Problems
  • Teachers
  • Responsibilities

• 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.

  

  Genevieve Bell
  • Interesting
  • Moments
  • Practical

• When an idea is idiotic to begin with, its applications never make any sense.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Idea
  • Applications
  • Idiotic

• We could take these products off the market tomorrow, we don't need the applications.

  

  Scott Gottlieb
  • Market
  • Products
  • Applications

• 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.

  

  Will Chase
  • Happens
  • Musicians
  • Practical

• I've spent my whole life trying to find out who I am, so I could express that through the music.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Life
  • Music
  • Trying

• You need propellants to accelerate toward Mars, then to decelerate at Mars, again to re-accelerate from Mars to Earth, and finally to decelerate back at Earth. Accordingly, the mass of these required propellants, in short, drives our need for innovative launch vehicles.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Earth
  • Mars
  • Propellants

• Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and bite all at once?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Alive

• 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.

  

  William Segal
  • Needs
  • Human
  • Seems

• I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.

  

  Richard Thompson
  • Without
  • Instrument
  • Quarters

• Administrators and scientists are excited by buckyballs for their own sake, and if they turn out to have practical applications, so much the better.

  

  Richard Smalley
  • Practical
  • Applications
  • Administrators