Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrea M. Ghez

The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.

Lute Olson

UCLA is just better. They really play well together, and they play very physical. They have a lot of weapons.

John Wooden

It isn't about what you do, but how you do it

John Wooden

Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others.

Jon Postel

I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.

James Franco

I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.

James Franco

I teach a lot - I teach at the UCLA and USC graduate film programs - and a lot of those projects are my students' projects that I act in or I do a cameo.

Mila Kunis

I definitely hope to attend UCLA in a year, and major in business.

Mila Kunis

My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that.

Benoit Mandelbrot

I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.

Art Alexakis

The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns

Anthony Storr

Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions.

Bill Bryson

A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.

Bill Burton

There is a lightning quickness to the speed at which candidates can build and accidentally dismantle their own campaigns. If candidates don't figure out their place in the new digital world of politics, they will be destroyed by it.

Bill Burr

It's a whole new world as far as getting a show on the air. There's good things and bad things.

Bertrand Russell

We ought to look the world frankly in the face.

Bertrand Russell

One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence

Alan Watts

LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.

Alan Watts

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

Edsger Dijkstra

Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.

Garik Israelian

The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.

David Willetts

Looking at scientific inquiry, next paradigm will be based on very large datasets. Scientists are in the lead in handling very large datasets - Hubble telescope or Large Hadron Collider are massive datasets.

J. D. Salinger

It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope.

John Wagner

Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away.

Joseph Campbell

It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope; there is no such society any more as the gods once supported.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.