Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Leakey

I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.

Sir Eddington

Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

Alfred Russel Wallace

Nature seems to have taken every precaution that these, her choicest treasures, may not lose value by being too easily obtained.

Antony Hewish

My first research was concerned with propagation of radiation through inhomogeneous transparent media and this has remained a lifelong interest.

Gregory Bateson

Of all these examples, the simplest but the most profound is the fact that it takes at least two somethings to create a difference.

R. Laing

It is a pleasure to me to run up to London and enjoy the collections at the National Gallery, South Kensington, and the Royal Academy.

Sydney Brenner

My parents would have preferred me to become a surgeon or a physician but were most understanding of the ambitions of their son.

Rupert Sheldrake

Well, I'm always hoping to hear from interested chemists and protein chemists, because I'd love for these experiments to be done properly.

Thomas Browne

Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven.

Kelly Williams

I always felt his game was ready (for the NBA). I was concerned about the off-the-court issues and mentally.

Craig Patrick

He didn't make the trip because in the third period last night he was having a recurrence of an irregular heartbeat. Obviously, we're concerned about it, so we left him at home.

Scott Matthews

Here at the Green Design Initiative, we're concerned that most will go to landfills,

J. Nichols

hard-working, self-educated and nurturing man. A concerned and a devoted father.

Michael Carty

I think the energy prices are going to overhang us for a while, maybe a good long while. It's looking like there's going to be a problem with fuel prices again, and the markets are concerned the consumer is going to be tapped out by the end of the year.

Mary Pipa

I was concerned when they lost the first set 6-0. I thought poor Amanda, out there for the first time, Miriam's first time on varsity and the first time they played together. But (in the second set) they got going. They started to get a little confident and determined and did their thing.

John Caverly

I was concerned that was going to come back to haunt us. Fortunately, we were able to come back and make some plays, but we have to get better in short-yardage situations.

John Cox

I was concerned that the rain would move the doves, but it seems like there are more doves now than before the big rain. They're feeding in milo fields, and the milo hasn't even been cut, yet.

Linda Richards

I was concerned that she would be interested in the job so that she could work out her own demons.

Andrew Kreisberg

I'm a lifelong 'Doctor Who' fan. Like, Peter Davison/Colin Baker, lifelong fan.

Will Blalock

I'd have to be not picked at all to come back. It's been a lifelong dream.

William Gibson

I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.

Robert Scheer

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

Roseanne Barr

Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from the people by American media. We must have facts and data in order to recognize where there is a problem!

Zachary Knighton

I've had friends whose boyfriends I meet, then they break up and I end up staying buddies with the boyfriend. In this day and age with social media and Facebook, Twitter, it's really impossible to escape people that you've been involved with. In a weird way, it makes it easier for everyone to stay friends because you're just sort of stuck there.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society.

Walter Kirn

The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialise alone.

Robert Glasper

Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it, it's like 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old,

Sandra Cisneros

This is the age of fear and so many of us feel afraid to speak out about what has happened to our lives in the wake of 9/11. Television promotes the world as a scary place for the United States and this justifies peeling away every element of privacy we had before. The media is monopolized so we don't even hear a lot of dissent about this new era.

Rufus Sewell

My career has suddenly started to be the one that I'd always wanted, not in terms of level of success, but in terms of - and this is what I've been banging on about - playing different parts in different media. I was very frustrated, in a physical sense, by people seeing me in a way that I wasn't. And I was beginning to find myself boxed into a corner. Hopefully things have loosed up a bit, and I've gotten better and become more relaxed as an actor.

Walther Bothe

The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed.

Nancy Reagan

I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.

Rachel Carson

We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals we disseminate widely in our environment?

Cynthia Nixon

I had a lumpectomy. It wasn't that bad. Six and a half weeks of radiation.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.

Farrah Fawcett

It's much easier to go through something and deal with it without being under a microscope... It was stressful. I was terrified getting the chemo. It's not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant.

Rosemarie Truglio

We took a long time and did a lot of research and preparation. We wanted to make sure we did this right.

Will Wright

I typically go overboard when I research new projects.

James Franco

I become kind of obsessive about research.

Patrick Rothfuss

I want to learn how to pick locks, swordfight, throw pottery - it's all research. It's like the curious person's version of James Bond's license to kill. I've got a license to learn.

Shinya Yamanaka

I like the freedom of research. Plus, if I fail in science, I know I can always survive because I have an M.D. This has been my insurance policy.

John McPhee

Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research.

Geoff Mulgan

Huge sums are invested globally in medical research and development - and with good reason.

David Horowitz

Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.

Chet Atkins

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.