Emilio Segre Quotes

#1. Don't try to get even with those who wrong you, get ahead.

Mensah Oteh

#2. Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#3. Enjoy your children, even when they don't act the way you want them to

Muhammad Ali

#4. I read somewhere that if you don't worship God, you'll find something else to worship, like money or power or your own reflection in the mirror.

Suzanne Morrison

#5. If some nuclear properties of the heavy elements had been a little different from what they turned out to be, it might have been impossible to build a bomb.

Emilio G. Segre

#6. [looked at other peoples lives and said,] 'How can one let it come to that? How can one not undo this ugly situation?' But now, when the disaster had fallen on his head, he not only did not think of how to undo the situation, but did not want to know about it at all.

Leo Tolstoy

#7. In scientific matters there was a common language and one standard of values; in moral and political problems there were many. ... Furthermore, in science there is a court of last resort, experiment, which is unavailable in human affairs.

Emilio G. Segre

#8. 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

#9. Never let your mouth write a check that your ass can't cash.

Chip Kidd

#10. Cheerful people find joy in little things, splendor in the ordinary, elegance in the everyday, and gladness in the greatness and smallness of creation.

Robert J. Morgan

#11. He felt a throb of happiness, and said nothing, just lay on his back and looked up at the stars.
"It's like old times," said Damen, though the truth was, he had never really had times like this.

C.S. Pacat

#12. She was developing what Mom called a bit of a sarcastic streak.

Jeannette Walls