![[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man; it involved the collaboration of scores of scientists from many different lands. But from the first to last the deeply creative, subtle and critical spirit of Niels Bohr guided, restrained, deepened and finally transmuted the enterprise.](/assets/img/quote-photos/about-the-great-synthesis-of-atomic-physics-in-the-1920s-it-was-a-heroic-time.jpg)
Related Quotes
All quotes about:
creativity happen helped town
I think it helped my creativity to be in a town that didn't have that influence. It helped the productivity to be in a place where there wasn't much structure. You had to make it happen for yourself. Ben Romans
creativity small-changes bigs
Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to small things. Rather, make big changes to big things. Roger Enrico
creativity artist people
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing. William S. Burroughs
creativity intelligent vision
We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological footprint, we offer a different vision. What if humans designed products and systems that celebrate an abundance of human creativity, culture, and productivity? That are so intelligent and safe, our species leaves an ecological footprint to delight in, not lament? William McDonough
creativity keys energy
Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life. William Shatner
creativity economic resources
Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource. Richard Florida
creativity iron people
Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.
creativity creative vision
Vision is the true creative rhythm. Robert Delaunay
creativity self-confidence arrogance
If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance. Trevor Nunn
men
I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be. Jane Fonda
men money
I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.
men heaven have-faith
Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward. William Wilberforce
men joy soul
Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.
men sides harvard
There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.
men lines straight-lines
The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God Antoni Gaudi
men temper ifs
Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.
men natural-instinct sin
Since man's natural instincts lead him to sin, all men are sinners; and all sinners go to hell. If everyone goes to hell, then you will meet all your friends there. Anton LaVey
men thinking care
The Satanist realizes that man, and the action and reaction of the universe, is responsible for everything, and doesn't mislead himself into thinking that someone cares.
landmark potential rank
has the potential to rank ... as a landmark event.
landing screen
I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize. Martin Freeman
land
The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers. William Robertson Smith
land rivers water
They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it. Willa Cather
land desert limited-resources
Resources on the planet are limited, and limited resources can come to an end. But there are also a lot of resources that are renewable. A lot of land, for example, can be reclaimed from the encroaching deserts. Wangari Maathai
land dear
O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is. Walt Whitman
land goodness american-history
To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land. William Least Heat-Moon
land done sun
I had this thought a while ago, "My darling cannot understand What I have done, or what would do In this blind bitter land." And I grew weary of the sun William Butler Yeats
land flags patriot
I’m not a patriot to a flag, I’m a patriot to a land. Winona LaDuke