Richard Smalley Quotes

The buckyball, with sixty carbon atoms, is the most symmetrical form the carbon atom can take. Carbon in its nature has a genius for assembling into buckyballs. The perfect nanotube, that is, the nanotube that the carbon atom naturally wants to make and makes most often, is exactly large enough that one buckyball can roll right down the center.

Richard Smalley

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• What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Freedom
  • Expression
  • Without

• Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Chaos
  • Consciousness
  • Irony

• I'm tired of the speculation about my personal life.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Life
  • Tired
  • Personal

• Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Political
  • Consequences

• One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Party
  • Tea
  • Conservative

• A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Reason
  • Always
  • Reasonable

• We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Law
  • Stop
  • Will

• I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Movie
  • Superhero
  • Martial Arts

• No man was ever great by imitation.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Man
  • Imitation

• If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Control
  • Company
  • Founder

• I've always been drawn to the four-leaf clover. It's deeply significant to my sister and me, so much so that we both have had it tattooed on the inside of our wrists.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Always
  • Sister
  • Inside

• I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.

  

  Bai Ling
  • People
  • Good
  • Me

• If you knew Peggy Sue - then you'd know why I feel blueWithout Peggy - my Peggy Sue.Oh well, I love you gal - yes, I love you Peggy Sue.Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue - oh how my heart yearns for you.Oh Peggy - my Peggy Sue.Oh well, I love you gal - yes, I love you Peggy Sue.

  

  Buddy Holly
  • Heart
  • Why

• I wanted to be a New York City firefighter. I didn't make it in, though.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • City
  • Firefighter

• I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Different
  • Bad
  • Space

• Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.

  

  G. D. H. Cole
  • May

• We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • True
  • Learn
  • Differences

• I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Genius
  • Insane

• Make it simple to last your whole life long. Don't worry that it's not enough for anyone else to hear. Just sing, sing a song...

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • Worry
  • Enough
  • Sing a song

• [I listen to] "Uptown Funk", Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes me tap into something in me to just decompress - I listen to that.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Sometimes
  • Boat
  • Funk

• The buckyball, with sixty carbon atoms, is the most symmetrical form the carbon atom can take. Carbon in its nature has a genius for assembling into buckyballs. The perfect nanotube, that is, the nanotube that the carbon atom naturally wants to make and makes most often, is exactly large enough that one buckyball can roll right down the center.

  

  Richard Smalley
  • Enough
  • Genius
  • Exactly