Fresnel Quotes

#1. It appears, from all that precedes, reasonably certain that if there be any relative motion between the earth and the luminiferous ether, it must be small; quite small enough entirely to refute Fresnel's explanation of aberration.

Albert A. Michelson

#2. Honey, Don't go shooting all the dogs 'cause one of them's got fleas

Paul Newman

#3. Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis. She avoids complication only in means. Nature seems to be proposed to do much with little: it is a principle that the development of physics constantly supports by new evidence.

Jean Fresnel

#4. Lead me, Lord, to the Rock that is higher than I. Let me hear your word, give me grace to obey, to build steadily, stone upon stone, day by day, to do what You say. Establish my heart where floods have no power to overwhelm, for Christ's sake. Amen.

Elisabeth Elliot

#5. Simplicity lies concealed in this chaos, and it is only for us to discover it.

Augustin-Jean Fresnel

#6. Avoid the trap of seeing your errors as catastrophic and your limitations as defining.

Robert A. Giacalone

#7. I write and believe so
those who read will share my vision.

S. Raven Storm

#8. The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.

Ted Sarandos

#9. If you cannot saw with a file or file with a saw, then you will be no good as an experimentalist.

Augustin-Jean Fresnel

#10. Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and ... not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy.

Gustav Freytag

#11. I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.

Jason Beghe

#12. Before I was in my forties. If you're still doing this

Meg Jay

#13. Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.

Diane Ackerman

#14. As we walked, I began to wonder what the opposite of molting was and why, unlike the body, which sheds everything, the soul cannot let go but compiles and accumulates, growing annual rings around the things it wants and dreams and remembers

Andre Aciman

#15. Am I doing the right thing? Is it ever right to hurt someone? But is it right to stay with someone when you want to be with someone else? Which one would hurt more?

Cheryl McIntyre

#16. How in the ever loving fuck am I severely hung over and turned on at the same time? I didn't think that was possible.

Kristen Proby

#17. Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.

F. Murray Abraham

#18. No one of these bloody jobs exist do they? Christ, y'just stick them up there to take the bare look off the walls.

Ian Pattison

#19. We do not learn from experience ... we learn from reflecting on experience.

John Dewey