Gribbin John Quotes

#1. People thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are - and connecting that to work that they truly love .

Po Bronson

#2. True story of quantum mechanics, a truth far stranger than any fiction.

John Gribbin

#3. Infinity is just zero spelled backwards.

Derek R. Audette

#4. The best things in science are both beautiful and simple, a fact that all too many teacher conceal from their students, by accident or design.

John Gribbin

#5. If the business of physics is ever finished, the world will be a much less interesting place in which to live . . .

John Gribbin

#6. Literature is a great staff, but a very sorry crutch.

Walter Scott

#7. Une with diffraction, just as if we let a thousand

John Gribbin

#8. The Constitution had provided that all the public functionaries of the Union ... should be under oath or affirmation for its support. The homage of religious faith was thus superadded to all the obligations of temporal law to give it strength.

John Quincy Adams

#9. All the home I know is a hotel. Why, I don't even have a dog ... I don't know the first thing about cooking or taking care of a house.

Pearl White

#10. Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote.

Elena Ferrante

#11. I don't think kids or grown-ups should be so eager to punish "geek" enthusiasm with shaming, even if the enthusiasm is for arcane things.

David Anderegg

#12. Don't be mad at me for my success. Be mad at yourself for not doing what it takes to get what I have. Then do something amazing with that emotion.

Dan Pearce

#13. I never allow myself to be influenced in the smallest degree either by atmospheric disturbances or by the arbitrary divisions of what is known as Time.

Marcel Proust

#14. Nothing is real unless it is observed

John Gribbin

#15. Sir Arthur Eddington summed up the situation brilliantly in his book The Nature of the Physical World, published in 1929. "No familiar conceptions can be woven around the electron," he said, and our best description of the atom boils down to "something unknown is doing we don't know what".

John Gribbin

#16. You always have choices, my dear. Always. Never forget that.

Cathy Hapka

#17. Oh Christ. Put me back with the zombies, Strawberry Shortcake. [p. 411]

Richard Kadrey