Gerald Holton Quotes
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
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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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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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I went to the top of Vesuvius and looked in.
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With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.
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Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe … I don’t think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.
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'Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.' He laughed. 'But don't let me down and become human yourself. We would lose a wonderful machine.'
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I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger.
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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.
