Georges Besancon Quotes

Aeronautics confers beauty and grandeur, combining art and science for those who devote themselves to it. . . . The aeronaut, free in space, sailing in the infinite, loses himself in the immense undulations of nature. He climbs, he rises, he soars, he reigns, he hurtles the proud vault of the azure sky . . .

Georges Besancon

• Science
• Space
• Aeronautics

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• I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Money
  • Couple
  • Credit

• Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • World
  • Children
  • Future

• Simultaneous recording with superimposed ionization chambers and Wilson chambers, ionization chambers and sets of counting tubes, has not yet been carried out.

  

  Victor Francis Hess
  • Out
  • Counting
  • Carried

• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Start

• Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Up
  • Family
  • Child

• I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.

  

  Earl Long
  • Home
  • Sweet
  • Voting

• I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have to deal with it. In the gallery, it's the same 150 people on the San Francisco art scene. There's a dynamic on the street that's definitely more interesting.

  

  Barry McGee
  • People
  • Art
  • Interesting

• It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.

  

  Dana Hussein
  • World
  • Good
  • Dream

• There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • American
  • Kind

• My whole thing is feel free to hate me – I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Free
  • Hate
  • Me

• I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Singing

• When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Energy

• It's getting worse under Prime Minister Modi. The economic miracle has failed, to a degree, and people are reaching back to a kind of imagined Hindu past for a feeling of pride. And that feeling of pride necessarily comes from denying any kind of Muslim heritage. People my age seem to be becoming illiberal in a way that I'm surprised by.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Age
  • Past

• It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Society
  • Travel
  • Chance

• Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Pretty
  • Show
  • Ever

• I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Up
  • Job
  • Know

• The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Art
  • Fashion
  • Ideas

• If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.

  

  Ralph Kiner
  • Today
  • Alive
  • Spinning

• 'American Idol' is a juggernaut... Because of my 'American Idol' win, I am able to do the thing that I love most, which is to be an entertainer.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Win
  • Thing
  • Idol

• All the measurements in the world do not balance one theorem by which the science of eternal truths is actually advanced.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • World
  • Science
  • Balance

• Getting to space for satellites is tough. Getting to space with humans aboard is even tougher.

  

  Jim Cantrell
  • Space

• I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Age

• If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

  

  Alfred Einstein
  • Enough
  • Understand
  • Explain

• Aeronautics confers beauty and grandeur, combining art and science for those who devote themselves to it. . . . The aeronaut, free in space, sailing in the infinite, loses himself in the immense undulations of nature. He climbs, he rises, he soars, he reigns, he hurtles the proud vault of the azure sky . . .

  

  Georges Besancon
  • Science
  • Space
  • Aeronautics