George Smoot Quotes

There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing.

George Smoot

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• My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • Career
  • Childhood
  • River

• Television is democracy at its ugliest.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Democracy
  • Politics
  • Ugliest

• The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Beginning
  • Attitude
  • Losing

• Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Learning
  • Living
  • Will

• If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Heart
  • Worry
  • Mistake

• I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • World
  • Happy
  • Performance

• It's funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in 'Madden,' and now to see myself in the game, it's an honor.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Up
  • Game
  • Funny

• Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Life
  • Different
  • May

• It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Help
  • Beautiful

• I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Against
  • Boycotts

• The only two shows I watch are 'Walking Dead' and 'Nashville,' but both just went off the air for a couple of months, so I feel like I have to be productive because I'm not sitting around waiting for the next episode of zombies or mainstream country music.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Music
  • Country
  • Couple

• The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Life
  • Father

• To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Beautiful
  • Reading
  • Poetry

• The notion of innate knowledge (including moral knowledge) is rejected, but that of moral sensitivities is accepted.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Knowledge
  • Moral

• You have to be driven by something greater than you, where you don't surrender, and you commit to something like that.

  

  Kurt Sutter

• I'm not a naturally social-media inclined person. I still prefer phone calls to texts/emails. I... hate texts.

  

  Constance Wu
  • Hate

• 'Reign' is probably the oldest one on the record. I wrote that when I was 19. 'The Dead They Don't Come Back,' which is the last song on the album, I wrote when I was 20, and 'Harlem River' I just wrote last year. It spans from 2007 to 2012.

  

  Kevin Morby
  • Song
  • River

• I'm such a foodie.

  

  Jessie James Decker

• I remember when I was 14, I went to race in Hungary, and I went to a concert, and they were playing Bob Marley songs, and I thought, "Wow, this guy is so special." It's Marley every time.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Guy

• VA is a unique national resource that is worth saving, and I am committed to doing just that.

  

  David Shulkin
  • Unique

• All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

  

  Chief Seattle
  • Life
  • Air
  • Tree

• Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

  

  William Allen White
  • Men
  • Quality
  • Greatness

• There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing.

  

  George Smoot
  • Christian
  • Doubt
  • Creation