Frederic Joliot Curie Quotes

#1. Wishing for the impossible in the future is a good exercise, I think, especially for children; wishing for it in the past is surely the emptiest and saddest of occupations.

Edgar Pangborn

#2. Astronomers sometimes observe that a star of medium magnitude increases suddenly in size; a star invisible to the naked eye may become very brilliant and visible without any telescope - the appearance of a Nova.

Frederic Joliot-Curie

#3. He might actually be a decent bloodsucker. And by decent, I mean a proper, murdering, 'I eat babies for breakfast' vampire. It's always the nice ones you have to worry about.

Julie Kagawa

#4. Part of the challenge with leadership is that it's very driven by gut instinct in most cases - and even worse, everyone thinks they're really good at it. The reality is that very few people are.

Laszlo Bock

#5. The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress 'em up.

George Gershwin

#6. In England and the United States, where physicists have at their disposal equipment of very high voltages, several new elements were prepared using protons and deuterons as projectiles.

Frederic Joliot-Curie

#7. You must adapt to the situation. This is where the pictures come from.

Douglas Kirkland

#8. How could someone possibly be that beautiful? She wondered for the hundred thousandth time. What higher power orchestrated such a perfect union of genes? Who decided that one single solitary soul deserved skin like that? It was so fundamentally unfair.(Chasing Harry Winston)

Lauren Weisberger

#9. I spy with my little eye a great story.

John Green

#10. We bombarded aluminum with alpha rays ... then after a certain period of irradiation, we removed the source of alpha rays. We now observed that the sheet of aluminum continued to emit positive electrons over a period of several minutes.

Frederic Joliot-Curie

#11. " ... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large it might be, was a perfect example of what it was."

Charles De Lint

#12. The larger picture is really to swing people's awareness of what really is moral.

Lily Tomlin

#13. I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.

James Laughlin

#14. It is because I know all that science can bring to the world that I shall continue my efforts to ensure that it contributes to the happiness of all men, whether they be white, black, or yellow, and not to their annihilation in the name of some divine mission or other.

Frederic Joliot-Curie

#15. The first unquestionable proofs of the transformation of elements into different chemical elements have been provided by the study of the phenomena of radioactivity.

Frederic Joliot-Curie

#16. I have always attached great importance to the manner in which an experiment is set up and conducted ... the experiment should be set up to open as many windows as possible on the unforeseen.

Frederic Joliot-Curie

#17. There is no doubt that radium is transformed spontaneously into an active gas, radon, emitting at the same time alpha particles, or helions.

Frederic Joliot-Curie

#18. I'm more of a fantasy kind of person. I like movies. My favorite movie is 'Kick Ass.'

Maksim Chmerkovskiy

#19. True love can't exist without trust.

Norma Gail

#20. Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

Bill Frist

#21. We are accidental people occupying an accidental planet in an accidental universe.

Rick Yancey

#22. Hell, Justin and I even talking about recording a blues song sometime.

Hank Williams Jr.