Ho sempre pensato che fino ai diciotto anni, niente importi», disse Mary. «È vero», concordò Abe. «E dopo è uguale».
Political scientists have long argued that party identification is the best possible predictor of voting behavior and is remarkably sticky over time.
I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much.
I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.
It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was, because we knew the Germans were hot on the trail.
At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
I think there's nothing about evolution in the Bible; I think this is a statement of religious insecurity. But people have their beliefs.
The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.
The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.
In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.
Running became boring because it's so predictable. I got to a point where I knew what my competition could do.
The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.
The Bay of Pigs was an operation the United States endorsed. That was a preventive operation. We were afraid that Castro was going to subvert the hemisphere.
If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.
Without asking anybody’s advice I turned myself insane sitting under the same sun and the same clouds.
These heads sheltered by umbrellas be they of Zeb-un-Nisa, or Catherine of Cleopatra or Fenichka live with their own stories
In how many minds should I go crazy? Whom should I ask?
Mary Queen of Scots is the most 'normal' girl who became a queen that I have ever written about.
We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.
You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.
