Kip Thorne Quotes

Simplicity is the touchstone in finding new physical laws. … If it's elegant, then it's a rough rule of thumb: you're on the right track.

Kip Thorne

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• Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.

  

  Gary Calamar
  • City
  • Always
  • Early

• Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Long
  • Honor
  • Where

• We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Person
  • Worst
  • Jealousy

• I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Fear
  • Half
  • Satan

• The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Blood
  • Keep
  • Wash

• I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Up
  • Home
  • Me

• As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Man
  • Control

• The final frontier of the digital technology is integrating into your own brain.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Technology
  • Brain
  • Digital

• Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) - you will have hope and be made hopeful.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Hope
  • Success
  • Magic

• Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• When I arrived, a hundred women were there auditioning... I raised my voice three registers, curled up in a chair, licked my hand and did ‘meow’s ,the director said, 'I didn’t tell her to do any of that stuff' – but the next day I got the part. Caesar Romero, Burgess Meredith, I was so lucky to work with all of them.

  

  Lee Meriwether
  • Up
  • Work
  • Women

• Khatami is a symptom and not the cause of change in Iran.

  

  Azar Nafisi

• Trátame como debes tratarme, no como merezco ser tratado.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose.

  

  Alan Cheuse
  • Country
  • Family
  • She

• I'm like a little kid when it comes to music. I mean, the music is always blasting wherever I am that people always knock on my door and say, 'It's too loud!' But I think music gives so much inspiration.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Music
  • Inspiration

• It just flat-out sucks losing. It really - it doesn't feel good.

  

  Jason Day
  • Good

• Instagram has become one of my favorite platforms because of its simplicity.

  

  Amy Jo Martin
  • Simplicity

• The first time, we did not know what change would look like. Now we do. The first time, we did not know Barack Obama. Now we do. Which dream will we carry into 2016? The American dream or Obama's dream? The future is not in my hands. It's not even in Obama's hands. The future is in your hands.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • Time
  • American
  • Future

• People who decry the fact that businesses are in business "just to make money" seldom understand the implications of what they are saying. You make money by doing what other people want, not what you want.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Money
  • Facts
  • Implications

• My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.

  

  Boyd Rice
  • Mind
  • Prayer
  • Magic

• The hush comes with the deepening of Autumn; but it comes gradually. Our ears are attuned to it, day by quieter day. But even now, if one awakens in the deep darkness of the small hours, one can hear it, a foretaste of Winter silence. It’s a little painful now, and a little lonely because it is so strange.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Small
  • Deep
  • Silence

• Simplicity is the touchstone in finding new physical laws. … If it's elegant, then it's a rough rule of thumb: you're on the right track.

  

  Kip Thorne
  • Simplicity