Chien Shiung Wu Quotes

#1. She [Chien-Shiung Wu] is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as either empress or mother.

Emilio G. Segre

#2. I suppose I'm something of an eccentric dresser.

Michael Sheen

#3. I'm from Dallas, so I totally get the whole thing. I understand the history and on how big of a scale 'Dallas' was and still is.

Josh Henderson

#4. Maharet's skin, which had been so pale and almost luminous in life, so like the inner lining of a seashell.

Anne Rice

#5. Time isn't running out. It's not even real," he said, and I knew I had lost him - he was lost, circling in his own mind. "It's just a measure of distance we made up to understand things. Like an inch. Or a mile.

Megan Miranda

#6. I was a senior research scientist that changed the accepted view of the structure of the universe.
I disproved one of the then widely accepted "laws" of physics, 'the conversation of parity', by proving that identical nuclear particles do not always act alike.

Chien-Shiung Wu

#7. Nevertheless, his very superiority kept him from being a success in college
the independence was mistaken for egotism, and the refusal to accept Yale standards with the proper awe seemed to belittle all those who had.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#8. There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is not going to the lab at all!

Chien-Shiung Wu

#9. Writers (my kind of writers: aspiring novelists, ruminative thinkers, people whose brains don't work quick enough to blog or link or tweet, basically old, stubborn blowhards) were through. We were like women's hat makers or buggy-whip manufacturers: Our time was done.

Gillian Flynn

#10. There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can't know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong. You can and do have the insight to see your own crazy.

Harlan Coben

#11. It's hard to imagine which is worse, living with fear, or living without it in a fantasyland were consequences don't exist.

Brooke Hauser

#12. Maybe that's what living in America does to you: it spreads you into far distances until you're just little bits rolling apart.

Marina Budhos

#13. Beta decay was ... like a dear old friend. There would always be a special place in my heart reserved especially for it.

Chien-Shiung Wu

#14. Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

Gunter Grass