Charles W. Follis Quotes

#1. If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.

George Westinghouse

#2. Nicholas Temelcoff is famous on the bridge, a daredevil. He is given all the difficult jobs and he takes them. He descends into the air with no fear. He is a solitary. He assembles ropes, brushes the tackle and pulley at his waist, and falls off the bridge like a diver over the edge of a boat.

Michael Ondaatje

#3. We paired this announcement of the R&D [commitment] with the so-called Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which is 27 [major investors] saying, "Hey, we'll put significant money into [energy innovations] when they're ready to spin out probably into startup companies."

Bill Gates

#4. Intimacy. We hunger for it, but we also fear it.

Lillian B. Rubin

#5. I love books. I love that moment when you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting than yours will ever be.

Elizabeth Scott

#6. Today chemists can artificially make hundreds of thousands of organic compounds, most of which are not duplicated in nature.

George W. Stocking