Frits Zernike Quotes

#1. If I had to cram all my tournament experience into one sentence, I would say, Don't give up and don't let up!

Tony Lema

#2. I went to high school in Lexington, Massachusetts, which in hindsight was very nice.

Eugene Mirman

#3. About 1930, our laboratory had obtained a large concave grating and set it up in a Runge-Paschen mounting.

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#4. Phase contrast was not discovered while working with a microscope, but in a different part of optics.

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#5. Life ... it's like gettin' a blueberry muffin in a coffeeshop when what you ordered was the apricot-nut. There aren't any apricots or nuts in it, and you can get tied up in knots just thinkin' about what you're missin', when the smarter thing to do is realize that blueberries have a nice taste, too.

Dean Koontz

#6. It doesn't feel right to love the world and see such brightness when something so awful has happened.

Cecelia Ahern

#7. How quick are we to learn: that is, to imitate what others have done or thought before. And how slow to understand: that is, to see the deeper connections.

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#8. With the phase-contrast method still in the first somewhat primitive stage, I went in 1932 to the Zeiss Works in Jena to demonstrate. It was not received with such enthusiasm as I had expected.

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#9. I would do my damn best to be more happy than not.

Adam Silvera