Nicola Cabibbo Quotes

Science is incapable of supplying answers to ultimate questions about why things exist and what their purpose is.

Nicola Cabibbo

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• I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Look

• A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Dog

• True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • True
  • Know
  • Problem

• Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • May
  • Best
  • Broken

• Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.

  

  Earle Brown
  • Music
  • Control
  • Beginning

• I have got everything which a politician needs.

  

  Tariq Anwar
  • Needs
  • Everything
  • Got

• Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Change
  • Politics
  • Repetition

• The demand for group rights will widen in the society, because social life increasingly becomes organized on a group basis.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Life
  • Society

• There shall always be much silence in a man's conduct. He shall speak only about a matter concerned with wisdom or matters that are necessary to keep his body alive.

  

  Maimonides
  • Wisdom
  • Silence

• Mere chance … alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Alone

• Ambition, n. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Friends
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• The fundamental problem is not that there are limits on voicing different opinions here. The problem is that the whole society is dying through lack of responsibility or involvement.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Different
  • Society
  • Responsibility

• His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered.I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Free
  • Deep
  • Tears

• I'm choosing not to accept the Trumpification of the GOP as an irreversible fact.

  

  Bill Kristol

• I don't necessarily think, as a person of influence, that it's always my job to influence people regarding my opinion.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • People
  • Job
  • Opinion

• I've always loved groups like U2 and Coldplay.

  

  Richard Marx

• I was always very physical, growing up, and did sports. I like to get out and do different things, and walk in different shoes. I like change. I like challenge.

  

  Emily Bett Rickards
  • Up
  • Different
  • Growing

• The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • Up
  • Time

• We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Want
  • Leave
  • U.S.

• I never did, nor do I believe I ever shall, give advice to a woman who is setting out on a matrimonial voyage; first, because I never could advise one to marry without her own consent; and, secondly, I know it is to no purpose to advise her to refrain when she has obtained it. A woman very rarely asks an opinion or requires advice on such an occasion, till her resolution is formed; and then it is with the hope and expectation of obtaining a sanction, not that she means to be governed by your disapprobation, that she applies.

  

  George Washington
  • Believe
  • Giving
  • Mean

• Undeveloped though the science of chemistry is, it already has great power to bring benefits. Those accruing to physical welfare are readily recognized, as in providing cures, improving the materials needed for everyday living, moving to ameliorate the harm which mankind by its sheer numbers does to the environment, to say nothing of that which even today attends industrial development. And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.

  

  Henry Taube
  • Today
  • Science
  • Kind

• The happiest life is to be without thought.

  

  Sophocles
  • Life is
  • Happiest

• We destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the social conditions under which you educate, by the intervention, direct or indirect, of society, by means of schools, etc.? The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.

  

  Walter Ciszek
  • School
  • Home
  • Character

• Science is incapable of supplying answers to ultimate questions about why things exist and what their purpose is.

  

  Nicola Cabibbo
  • Science
  • Purpose
  • Answer