Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Quotes

The laboratory work was the province of Dr Searle, an explosive, bearded Nemesis who struck terror into my heart. If one made a blunder one was sent to ‘stand in the corner’ like a naughty child. He had no patience with the women students. He said they disturbed the magnetic equipment, and more than once I heard him shout ‘Go and take off your corsets!’ for most girls wore these garments then, and steel was beginning to replace whalebone as a stiffening agent. For all his eccentricities, he gave us excellent training in all types of precise measurement and in the correct handling of data.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

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• After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Critics
  • Others
  • Rather

• An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Change
  • Marriage
  • Conflict

• You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when he played the game, I got something from the way he played the game because he hustled every play, and just because he had one mistake in his life, am I supposed to throw back everything that I gained from him?

  

  Walter Payton
  • Life
  • Game
  • Mistake

• Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Country
  • Animals
  • Through

• We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Nothing
  • Because
  • Little

• We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.

  

  Bartlett Sher
  • Culture
  • Small
  • Support

• I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.

  

  Kate Baldwin
  • Women
  • Spirit
  • Adventure

• We allowed ourselves to become particularly interested in research into the appearance of intermediate products of sugar decomposition during cell-free fermentation.

  

  Eduard Buchner
  • Free
  • Research
  • Appearance

• Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Birth
  • Class
  • Determined

• If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Down
  • Run
  • Truck

• A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • People
  • Teacher
  • Matter

• Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Beautiful
  • Amazing
  • Ocean

• Women in country music have always been a staple and always been important.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Music
  • Important
  • Women

• Ladies like improv stilts, and I think men like improv giant cocks. But one of the great things about improv is that you get to play some roles you'd never get to play otherwise, you know, like the old Italian pizza-maker who's passing on the business down to his son. You get to play it all when you improvise.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Great
  • Men
  • Business

• From the moment we wake up each morning to the time we hit the pillow at night, we hear what people have to say, but are we really listening?

  

  Mac Anderson
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• ... health is the obstacle, which ... must stand in the way of a girl's acquiring the intellectual strength, which ... is so invaluable to a boy.

  

  Elizabeth Missing Sewell
  • Girl
  • Health
  • Boy

• With few exceptions ... most jukebox musicals need a story line. But 'Ring of Fire' is basically just a Cash-and-carry anthology of an iconic singer.

  

  Clive Barnes
  • Fire
  • Story
  • Singer

• One school invited me down, as two pupils had come out, and the headmaster didn't know what to do about it. I said, 'How many students here are gay?' and he said, 'Just these two.' Clearly not. 'How many gay members of staff have you got?' He had no idea. And this was a concerned man.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • School
  • Gay
  • Idea

• I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material.

  

  Eric Mazur
  • Teacher
  • Information
  • Students

• You're literally being an actor - you're pretending - and that's not what I like to do.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Actors
  • Pretending

• But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Married

• putting the government of Syria on notice that our patience has limits.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Government
  • Patience
  • Limits

• The laboratory work was the province of Dr Searle, an explosive, bearded Nemesis who struck terror into my heart. If one made a blunder one was sent to ‘stand in the corner’ like a naughty child. He had no patience with the women students. He said they disturbed the magnetic equipment, and more than once I heard him shout ‘Go and take off your corsets!’ for most girls wore these garments then, and steel was beginning to replace whalebone as a stiffening agent. For all his eccentricities, he gave us excellent training in all types of precise measurement and in the correct handling of data.

  

  Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
  • Students
  • Laboratory
  • Measurement