Walter Lewin Quotes

All of you have now lost your virginity... in Physics!

Walter Lewin

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• Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • War
  • Amazing
  • Universe

• I think 2001 was the year Al Jazeera started to play an international role, in a way. Because in 2001, we were the only TV station located inside Kabul, and every image out of the war in Afghanistan, the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, came through Al Jazeera screen.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • War
  • Beginning
  • Year

• I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'

  

  Fetty Wap
  • God
  • Mother
  • Thought

• I was acting since I was a kid, going to drama classes and being involved in every school play and musical that I could get my hands on, so it was something that was a part of me from a very early age.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • School
  • Age
  • Drama

• The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • First
  • Year
  • Open

• When you model for a show, you get this real sense of adrenaline. It's difficult when the shoes are so high - that part's quite scary - but you just have to do it.

  

  Ymre Stiekema
  • Real
  • High
  • Model

• The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Professional
  • Sense
  • Irish

• I painted a painting called 'Milk River' in 1963 Cows don't give milk if they don't have grass and water Tremendous meaning of that is that painters can't give anything to the observer. People get what they need from a painting. The painter need not die because of responsibility. When you have inspiration and represent inspirationThe observer makes the painting.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Painting
  • Inspiration
  • Painters

• So, you wouldn't marry me." "Ridiculous question. I'm eighteen!" "Oh, it's an age thing?" He frowned. "You don't mean wild oats, do you? We're not going to have some stupid break so you can experience other---" Zuzana put a hand over his mouth. "Gross. Don't even say it.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Experience
  • Age
  • Question

• Love affair. Doesn't that sound so middle-aged? And also ill-fated. Like ill-fated is an understood prefix to love affair. Well, ill-fated is fine, as long as it's a meaty and fraught ill-fated love affair, not a pale and insipid one.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Long

• ... and holy hell the chocolate is so intense and pure it should be named an element and given a spot on the periodic table. It would be Ch, which isn't even taken.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Taken
  • Chocolate

• The thing is, you throw brains and souls into an animal and stir, you don’t really know what you’re going to get.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Soul
  • Brain
  • Animal

• The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Genius
  • Difference
  • Limits

• No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Hungry

• The burgeoning field of computer science has shifted our view of the physical world from that of a collection of interacting material particles to one of a seething network of information. In this way of looking at nature, the laws of physics are a form of software, or algorithm, while the material world-the hardware-plays the role of a gigantic computer.

  

  Paul Davies
  • World
  • Nature
  • Science

• Defining virginity means directly affecting the lives of nearly all women, and many men as well. Despite what some people appear to think, defining virginity is not merely a philosophical exercise. It is an exercise in controlling how people behave, feel, and think, and in some cases, whether they live or die.

  

  Hanne Blank
  • Men
  • Women
  • Virginity

• All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Good
  • Decision

• All of you have now lost your virginity... in Physics!

  

  Walter Lewin
  • Physics
  • Virginity