Cecilia Payne-gaposchkin Quotes

#1. How do we make the world work?

R. Buckminster Fuller

#2. The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.

Edward Abbey

#3. I hate that it sounds like a punishment.

Stephanie Perkins

#4. I was to blame for not having pressed my point. I had given in to Authority when I believed I was right. That is another example of How Not To Do Research. I note it here as a warning to the young. If you are sure of your facts, you should defend your position.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

#5. I want to grow up to be Tom Keneally or David Malouf: still in the game, relevant, putting out quality work, and paying tax aged 78 and 80.

Nick Earls

#6. There is nothing personal in the thunderclap of understanding. The lightning that releases it comes from outside oneself.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

#7. No sane woman would injure her breasts and still want the stigma attached to rape.

S.A. David

#8. But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbors. We judge from our own desires, and our neighbors themselves are not always open enough even to throw out a hint of theirs.

George Eliot

#9. If incredible creatures like sharks can exist, why not Bigfoot? When I look at sharks, they're the most terrifying, monstrous, dinosaur-like things. To this day, I'm so fascinated by them and can't get my head around how they are on Planet Earth at all.

Rachael Taylor

#10. The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#11. Never complain about your troubles; they are responsible for more than half of your income.

Robert Updegraff

#12. As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.

Rafael Nadal