Barry Sharpless Quotes

#1. Jnana teaches that the world should be given up, but not on that account to be abandoned. To be in the world but not of it-is the true test of the sannyasin.

Swami Vivekananda

#2. Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.

Miles Davis

#3. When I started doing chemistry, I did it the way I fished - for the excitement, the discovery, the adventure, for going after the most elusive catch imaginable in uncharted seas.

Karl Barry Sharpless

#4. What the ocean was to the child, the Periodic Table is to the chemist.

Karl Barry Sharpless

#5. Rock and roll and swing never quite mixed. Rock and roll came in and just blew everything out of the water. Big bands were dead.

Brian Setzer

#6. An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives.

Jean Kerr

#7. The Reformation was cradled in the printing-press, and established by no other instrument.

Agnes Strickland

#8. If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#9. With her courage and determination, Malala has shown what terrorists fear most: a girl with a book.

Ban Ki-moon

#10. At its very heart, Worldchanging is about using the best of people's new ideas, bringing them together and applying them to the massive problems that we all face.

Alex Steffen

#11. The fake laughter is an implied message.

Toba Beta