Louis de Broglie Quotes

“Vulnerable, like all men, to the temptations of arrogance, of which intellectual pride is the worst, he [the scientist] must nevertheless remain sincere and modest, if only because his studies constantly bring home to him that, compared with the gigantic aims of science, his own contribution, no matter how important, is only a drop in the ocean of truth.”

Louis de Broglie

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• In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
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  • Different

• They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Life
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• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  

  E. V. Lucas
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• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
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• They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

  

  H. Rap Brown
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• I love the hip-hop nation.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Love
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• I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Audience
  • Wonderful
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• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• The imperturbability of the Church resides in her ability to harmonize the unconditional preservation of eternal truths with an unmatchable elasticity of adjustment to the circumstances and challenges of changing times.

  

  Edith Stein
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• Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this - that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art. For there are greater things than the object. The greatest thing is the human mind.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Hate

• Sejamos simples e calmos,Como os regatos e as árvores,E Deus amar-nos-á fazendo de nósBelos como as árvores e os regatos,E dar-nos-á verdor na sua primavera,E um rio aonde ir ter quando acabemos...E não nos dará mais nada, porque dar-nos mais seria tirar-nos mais.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• The glamour of Hollywood has never worn thin for me.

  

  Irene Dunne

• Revenge is the sweetest morsel to the mouth, that ever was cooked in hell.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Revenge

• Six Sigma has forever changed GE. Everyone-from the Six Sigma zealots emerging from their Black Belt tours, to the engineers, the auditors, and the scientists, to the senior leadership that will take this Company into the new millennium-is a true believer in Six Sigma, the way this Company now works.

  

  Jack Welch
  • True
  • Black
  • Forever

• You are more than now;You are for always.I can see in youMy dreams come true.Don't you ever go away.You make me feel likeThere's nothing I can't do.And when I hold you,I only want to sayI love you.

  

  Lionel Richie
  • True

• Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression 'individual rights' is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today’s intellectual chaos). But the expression 'collective rights' is a contradiction in terms.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Today
  • Chaos

• Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.

  

  Louis Kronenberger
  • Money

• God does not exist-religion in science is an absurdity, in practice an immorality and in men a disease.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • God
  • Men
  • Science

• I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.

  

  Clive James
  • World
  • History

• I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Film
  • Actors
  • Capture

• The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Truth
  • Change
  • Ability

• I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.

  

  Graham Coxon Blur
  • Empty
  • Germany
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• “Vulnerable, like all men, to the temptations of arrogance, of which intellectual pride is the worst, he [the scientist] must nevertheless remain sincere and modest, if only because his studies constantly bring home to him that, compared with the gigantic aims of science, his own contribution, no matter how important, is only a drop in the ocean of truth.”

  

  Louis de Broglie
  • Truth
  • Scientist
  • Studies