Life Quotes

In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a natural order.

Walter Rudolf Hess

Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.

Walter Rudolf Hess

I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it...

Warren G. Harding

Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

W. Averell Harriman

We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender.

W. Averell Harriman

Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in a very real way in the recovery of Russia.

W. Averell Harriman

Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland.

W. Averell Harriman

There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.

W. Averell Harriman

Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement.

W. Averell Harriman

I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.

W. Averell Harriman

The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease.

W. Averell Harriman

Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.

W. Averell Harriman

A human body is a conversation going on, both within the cells and between the cells, and they're telling each other to grow and to die; when you're sick, something's gone wrong with that conversation.

W. Daniel Hillis

Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.

Wendy Hiller

Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.

Werner Heisenberg

The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.

Werner Heisenberg

The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases...

Werner Heisenberg

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

Werner Herzog

Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.

Werner Herzog

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.

Werner Herzog

I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog.

Werner Herzog