Gerald Holton Quotes
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
Quotes to Explore
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Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
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I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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The Chinese government attaches importance to, and protects, human rights. We have incorporated these lines into the Chinese constitution, and we also implement the stipulation in real earnest. I think for any government, what is most important is to ensure that its people enjoy each and every right given to them by the constitution.
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Women are made to be loved, not understood.
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I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.
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I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!
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I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
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The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.
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Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
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But all my life though, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. I saw in later life that this spirit was an essential part of Satyagraha. It has often meant endangering my life and incurring the displeasure of friends. But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
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One must be something in order to do something.
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L'offenseur ne pardonne jamais.1
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The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day
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I've learned a lot from the investigations and the trial. It's all my fault.
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In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original.
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It was Richard Parker who calmed me down. It is the irony of this story that the one who scared me witless to start with was the very same who brought me peace, purpose, I dare say even wholeness.
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In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
