Centrifuge Quotes

#1. Fermi started to calculate on his own, saying nothing, and in a direct, simple way found the essential point. The ability of a centrifuge to separate U-235 from U-238 was proportional to its length and to the fourth power of the peripheral speed of its rotor. Karl

Gregory Benford

#2. Here's a woman who had survived the centrifuge, the vomit comet, hard-landing drills and 10k runs. A woman who fixed a simulated MDV computer failure while being spun around upside-down. But she was afraid of a tattoo needle.

Andy Weir

#3. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.

Ray Bradbury

#4. Hope ... which is whispered from Pandora's box only after all the other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is only time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion.

Ian Caldwell

#5. I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!

Brian Blessed

#6. Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge.

John L. Phillips

#7. Your self is a cosmetic
fiction, a centrifuge.

Warren Heiti

#8. Modern life is a centrifuge; it throws people in every direction.

Paul Murray

#9. Ampoules containing cortisone, testosterone gel residues, syringes and needles, a centrifuge for measuring my blood values.But, contrary to the erroneous reports in the press, they didn't find any EPO or growth hormone.

Patrik Sinkewitz

#10. Whirl man's mind around about so fast under the pumping hands of publishers, exploiters, broadcasters that the centrifuge flings off all unnecessary, time-wasting thought!

Ray Bradbury

#11. I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests with ZERO-G [a charter-flight service in Arlington, Va., that uses modified Boeing 727s to simulate weightlessness], which went great.

Richard Branson

#12. This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.

Larry Kramer

#13. I live in New York City, so there's so much stimulation when you walk outside, it does not require a television in the home.

Jesse Eisenberg

#14. People equate sexy with promiscuous. They think that because I'm shaped this way, I must be scandalous - like running around and bringing men into my hotel room. But it's just the opposite.

Jennifer Lopez

#15. Nothing is more important than creative play through imagination.
Never stop playing, and never stop imagining!

Carmela Dutra

#16. What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.

Barbara Lee

#17. You are holding in your hands not only a book of readings and instruction for the journey, but one monastic's heart of love held out to a searching world.

Paula D'Arcy

#18. When mental sickness increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects.

George Sand

#19. What do you know about insurance fraud?
I knew discussions of it were not likely to lead to sex.

Roberta Pearce

#20. When people are free to choose, they choose freedom

Margaret Thatcher

#21. My mother says I used to breast-feed in a split.

Dree Hemingway

#22. Sprinted past him up the stairs, toward the royal family's wing of the palace.

Rachel Hartman

#23. It matters if you just don't give up.

Stephen Hawking

#24. I must break out ...
... start a new life ...
been here for years ...
might be getting into a rut ...
something a bit more exciting ...
more adventurous ...
something with more of a challenge ...
There's not much opportunity for self-advancement in toilets ...

Raymond Briggs

#25. Spiritual maturity testifies of one's level of patience

Sunday Adelaja