Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scarlett Thomas

In some ways I'm a frustrated scientist or mathematician. The amount of times I've thought I'd go back to university and do theoretical physics because I like the big questions, but really I know now that that's not quite me. What's me is to do it in novels.

Paul Dirac

The only object of theoretical physics is to calculate results that can be compared with experiment... it is quite unnecessary that any satisfactory description of the whole course of the phenomena should be given.

Albert Einstein

It would of course be a great step forward if we succeeded in combining the gravitational field and the electromagnetic field into a single structure. Only so could the era in theoretical physics inaugurated by Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell be brought to a satisfactory close.

Stephen Hawking

It is tribute to how far we have come in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money to perform experiments whose results we can not predict.

Vandana Shiva

I started out in nuclear physics. But after I became more sensitized to the environmental and health implications of the nuclear system - I was being trained to be the first women in the fast-breeder reactor in India (and was in it when it first went critical) - I didn't feel comfortable with it. So I went into theoretical physics.

William J. Brennan

Clerks get into the damnedest wrangles--which is the way they help me.

Salvador Dali

Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch.

William Cowper

There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.

Rick Warren

I hope that the community will cooperate and not hassle the clerks with what they have to do. It's a good store and serves a good need to the community.

Kevin Smith

You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude, but they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.

Karl Kraus

There is a shortage of clerks. Everyone is going into journalism.

Chris Jones

Stores have become theaters, clerks have become actors and the merchandise is the set.

Dana Williams

We've been working as fast as we can since Feb. 1. But it's a 30- to 60-day process. I know the clerks are under a lot of pressure. This has just been perfect storm situation.

Albert Einstein

One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.

Joe Miller

He did a good job running the offense. Howard had a few transition baskets in the run (to erase the 16-point deficit).

Roger Ailes

I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.

Elton Brand

In the past, we might have folded, but we erased that 12-point lead and we're up three at halftime. It's a great, great feeling. It's much different than before.

Henry Cavill

No matter what era we're in, we need hope.

David Boyer

Then it erased it and wrote it again, and did it all day. People loved it.

Freda Adler

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

Cheryl Strayed

He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life.

Charlton Heston

The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.

Joyce Carol Oates

A writer can't subtract or excise any of his/her past because doing so would erase the work produced during that time.