Adam Riess Quotes

#1. Your chemistry high school teacher lied to you when they told you that there was such a thing as a vacuum, that you could take space and move every particle out of it.

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#2. We're really just the frosting on a cake and we don't know what's inside the cake.

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#3. So many things happen that we can't control, its best not to worry about what we can. Believing you can change the world has a terrible effect on one's ego.

Bauvard

#4. I see fear as a sign of intelligence, of preservation.

Rickson Gracie

#5. Inner beauty supersedes outer beauty.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#6. Marie-Laure smiles, and he laughs a pure, contagious laugh, one she will try to remember all her life, father and daughter turning in circles on the sidewalk in front of their apartment house, laughing together while snow sifts through the branches above.

Anthony Doerr

#7. I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling.

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#8. Fake it, fake your confidence until it's real. I think it's a good way to live most of your life.

Marina And The Diamonds

#9. I have the opportunity to do something positive, I want to stay positive. It's hustling backwards in my eyes when I can earn money legitimately. This is what I want to do.

Curtis Jackson

#10. Music and singing keeps us alive, give us hope. If we can feel, we know we can live.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#11. We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating.

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#12. A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

Mark Twain

#13. We look at distant exploding stars called supernovae, and we've developed techniques to measure how far away they are and how fast they're moving away from us.

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#14. In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system.

Paul Gillmor

#15. Until the 1990s, there were few reliable observations about movement at the scale of the entire universe, which is the only scale dark energy effects. So dark energy could not be seen until we could measure things very, very far away.

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#16. During my time at Watchung Hills Regional High School, I was fortunate to have a number of teachers who inspired me and filled me with enthusiasm for learning.

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#17. New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.

Patricia Marx

#18. People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do.

Steven Wright

#19. The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?

Erma Bombeck

#20. It's everywhere, really. It's between the galaxies. It is in this room. We believe that everywhere that you have space, empty space, that you cannot avoid having some of this dark energy.

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#21. Every liberal in the country must watch Fox News for one year, and every conservative in the country must watch MSNBC for one year. (Middle-of-the-roaders could stick with CSI)

Stephen King

#22. Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system.

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