Ampere Quotes

#1. We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt.

Ogden Nash

#2. Ampere was the Newton of Electricity.

James C. Maxwell

#3. True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier - when it's spelled with a lower case letter.

Richard Hamming

#4. Be careful what you wish for. It may turn out that making the wish was the only good part.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#5. You can move through life seeing nothing as a miracle, or seeing everything as a miracle.

Albert Einstein

#6. If breaking a habit has been hard for you to do, hard for you even to face, then a helping hand is in order.

Kenneth Schwarz

#7. Believe in God, in His providence, in a future life, in the recompense of the good; in the punishment of the wicked; in the sublimity and truth of the doctrines of Christ, in a revelation of this doctrine by a special divine inspiration for the salvation of the human race.

Andre-Marie Ampere

#8. Thank you for that selfless act of research on my behalf.

Sarina Bowen

#9. It was almost as if he enjoyed the fact that the more agitated his opponent was, the more serene he became. Belagren's thoughts about Antonov in The Lion of Senet

Jennifer Fallon

#10. No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.

Haruki Murakami

#11. My father ... never required me to study anything, but he knew how to inspire in me a great desire for knowledge. Before learning to read, my greatest pleasure was to listen to passages from Buffon's natural history. I constantly requested him to read me the history of animals and birds ...

Andre-Marie Ampere

#12. There is synthesis when, in combining therein judgments that are made known to us from simpler relations, one deduces judgments from them relative to more complicated relations.
There is analysis when from a complicated truth one deduces more simple truths.

Andre-Marie Ampere

#13. The world today is anything but trouble-free.

Li Keqiang

#14. There just comes a point where you realize it is time to show up for your parents, no matter what has passed between you or how you were raised or how busy you are. You just have to show up.

Kim Severson

#15. It seemed to me that one should make an effort to banish artificial classifications from chemistry and begin to assign to each element the place it must occupy in the natural order by comparing it in succession to others ...

Andre-Marie Ampere

#16. Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.

Suetonius

#17. My father hates organized religion, probably because he hates the God who killed his little girl back in 1968. I find religions variously bemusing.

William T. Vollmann