Der Meer Quotes

#1. Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset.

Simon Van Der Meer

#2. I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.

Simon Van Der Meer

#3. At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an end; I joined a study group on the pp project and an experimental team studying cooling in a small ring (ICE).

Simon Van Der Meer

#4. They can't touch us. We're the Vikings. We go into battle without armor for the flush and the blood of it.

Janet Fitch

#5. He's just watching out for you, Desiree.' Dee patted Mace's arm. 'Bless his heart.'
Mace growled. 'I know that's not a compliment, Dee-Ann.

Shelly Laurenston

#6. He mashed hundreds of cakes of GI soap into the sweet potatoes just to show that people have the taste of Philistines and don't know the difference between good and bad.

Joseph Heller

#7. Since then, I have worked with the group that commissioned and improved the ring and that is now preparing the construction of a second ring to increase the p stacking rate by an order of magnitude.

Simon Van Der Meer

#8. Welcome to Dauntless! Where you either face your fears and try not to die in the process or you leave a coward

Veronica Roth

#9. My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators.

Simon Van Der Meer

#10. I have always loved you ... Since the first day I saw you, and even more with each day. The loving of you threatens to undo me now.

Lisa Tawn Bergren

#11. Make dressing a question of taste and attractiveness instead of a question of morality.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#12. My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

Simon Van Der Meer

#13. After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR.

Simon Van Der Meer

#14. According to a recent survey, kids are receiving an average of 40 cents less from the tooth fairy. That's right, the economy is so bad that even make-believe people are feeling the pinch.

Conan O'Brien

#15. We need to aggressively take on radical Islamic terrorism but not at the expense of our American values.

Joe Biden

#16. Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it, the old reality is no longer real to us and loses its hold on us. The truth sets us free.

C. Terry Warner

#17. Being alone is easier than having a family. When you have a family, you are responsible to each other. It's easier to navigate the world without that burden.

Zachary Jernigan

#18. Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.

Simon Van Der Meer

#19. Elizabeth Bennet: I'm very fond of walking. Mr. Darcy: Yes... yes I know. (from Pride & Prejudice, the movie)

Jane Austen