Gerhard Herzberg Quotes

#1. Footnoting references, signalling quotations, and so on were no part of a 13th-century scholar's duty. He could recycle his own and his predecessor's work without a qualm. He knew nothing of copyright and plagiarism, which are 17th-century inventions.

Fergus Kerr

#2. From CATS ARE KIND
I saw a dog pursuing automobiles;
On and on he sped.
I was puzzled by this;
I accosted the dog.
'If you catch one,' I said
'What will you do with it?'
'Dumb cat,' he cried,
And ran on.

Henry N. Beard

#3. If we've been a little more successful than other people, is because we always realised that the school of life was always open, and if you were not learning more you are falling behind.

Charlie Munger

#4. When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution ... Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.

Paul Virilio

#5. If you're still in a bar when the lights go on, you are a loser.

Jessica Cutler

#6. The intention of this Book of The Law is perfectly simple. Whatever your sexual predilections may be, you are free, by the Law of Thelema, to the the star you are, to go your own way rejoicing.

Aleister Crowley

#7. Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us from primitive life must also be used in works of art.

Anton Webern

#8. This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

Dorothy Parker

#9. I'm obsessed with Greek mythology. My favorite goddess is Artemis. She's strong and reminds me of Katniss, the heroine of 'The Hunger Games.'

Isabelle Fuhrman

#10. This generation must get deadly serious about the problem of Biblical illiteracy.

Albert Mohler

#11. I mean 'One Tree Hill' had some rabid fans - you'd be surprised - they're almost in a class of their own.

Joe Manganiello

#12. Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire.

Alex Comfort

#13. When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity to advanced high school students.

Brian Greene

#14. It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than genius, it does not reach its goal, while genius already on the summit of the ideal, gazes laughingly about.

Robert Schumann