Quotes of: Nobel-peace-prize Keyword

I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.

Jimmy Wales

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

Pope Francis

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

Ellen Swallow Richards

Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.

George M. Whitesides

Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.

Dmitri Mendeleev

The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.

Dmitri Mendeleev

It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.

Doris Lessing

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

Niels Bohr

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

Orlando Aloysius Battista

If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.

Archer John Porter Martin

'I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of all.

Brigitte Boisselier

The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.

Victor Grignard

In those days industry would hire any chemist that could breathe.

William Standish Knowles

Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.

Dmitri Mendeleev

This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers.

Henry Taube

It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.

Kary Mullis

If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over w...

Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

I don’t like the shrug. It’s an abdication of responsibility for making sure that art keeps doing the things that art should do. If you shrug, that keeps the wheels turning the way they’re turning. It lets corporations turn you into selfish con...

Questlove

Girl in Studebaker: You got a bitchin' car. John Milner: Yeah, I know. Girl in Studebaker: In fact, your car's so neat, we're gonna give you our special prize. You want me to give it to you? John Milner: Sweetheart, if the prize is you, I'm a ready t...

American Graffiti

To be at peace with others you must be at peace with yourself.

E'yen A. Gardner

We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.

Marianne Williamson