Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Shechtman

The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.

Albert Camus

There is no frontier between being and appearing.

Angela Cummings

I always do diamonds, ... ... but I don't do large stones. I try to use non-traditional shapes.

Anthony Marra

Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.

George William Norris

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

Seth Shostak

In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building.

Bob Lewis

Having this large a turnout made it a very special day for the series,

John Thompson

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

Malcolm Glazer

There is no acquisition that is too large for Zapata to consider,

Karen Chupka

With more than 300 mobile electronics exhibitors, the International CES is the world's largest showcase for in-car technologies.

Bob Wright

There aren't that many growing, independent Web sites that have picked up a large audience. Pretty soon, there won't be any left.

Susumu Tonegawa

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

Evan Osnos

To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.

John Lloyd Young

I think that of musicals - especially the big, splashy ones - require an actor that's also part cheerleader, too, and that's really tough to do if it's not something that really grabs you and your heart's not in it.

William Amelio

In this industry, it's required of us to be best-of-breed in terms of operational efficiency.

Malin Akerman

My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.

Benjamin Franklin

Youth, Age, and Sick require a different Quantity.

Steve Schultz

It may require some bor­row­ing, using the village's bond­ing agreement.

Ronald Hill

When you research companies, they now have a statement on Y2K compliance, which they are required to give you,

Noam Chomsky

The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.

Roald Amundsen

Everything is on a reduced scale here in the Polar regions; we can't afford to be extravagant.

Mike Reed

I just wanted to do something on the scale of a neighborhood street festival--except cool.

Jonny Greenwood

As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.

Tavis Smiley

Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

Matt McKay

All of the sectional championships are sweet. There is no sweet scale when it comes to sectional championships.

David Suzuki

We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.

Dinesh Keskar

The scale is going to go up for them.

Jan Egeland

I've never seen such devastation before. We are in the sixth day of operation, and every day the scale of devastation is getting wider.

Brian Chesky

Do things that won't scale; it will teach you.

Richard P. Feynman

If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.

Richard P. Feynman

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

Richard P. Feynman

Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.

Richard P. Feynman

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

Richard P. Feynman

The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination in a straightjacket, which is this: that it has to agree with the known laws of physics. ... It requires imagination to think of what's possible, and then it requires an analysis back, checking to see whether it fits, whether its allowed, according to what's known, okay?

Richard P. Feynman

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.

Richard P. Feynman

It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics.

Richard P. Feynman

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Richard P. Feynman

Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.