Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.
Molecular collision dynamics has been a wonderful area of research for all practitioners. This is especially true for those who were following the footsteps of pioneers and leaders of the field twenty years ago.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
The most important blessing to count is your heart beat.
When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind have to embark on a different life, since the dead are no longer here to help us deceive ourselves.
Believe in yourself the way God believes in you.
The ability for a person to operate satisfactorily in a thing is dependent on how much he knows about that thing. Ignorance is a major cause of inability.
We all have the muscle of creativity in our minds, but for it to consistently give great results it needs daily exercise.
Spend every second of every day together as a moment that could never be replaced.
There is nothing selfish, dazzling, or preposterous about dreamers; in everyday life they blend in rather than stand out, though it's not hiding. A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.
It was not about keeping a man; it was a lesson on how not to become an ugly woman.
Does marriage have such a revolutionary power that a long-established habit can be overthrown in such a short time?
One wrong move and everyone judges you .
But whose problem is it when you make people talk about you?" "Theirs.
[T]heories inevitably can't be as complex as life itself.
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.
A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.