Haber Quotes

#1. [Smil] estimates that two of every five humans on Earth today would not be alive if not for Fritz Haber's invention of the Haber-Bosch process.

Michael Pollan

#2. We should misjudge this scientist [Fritz Haber] seriously if we were to judge him only by his harvest. The stimulation of research and the advancement of younger scholars become ever more important to him than his own achievements.

Richard Willstatter

#3. Dr. Clara Immerwahr Haber committed suicide the same night.

Richard Rhodes

#4. Children have their own kind of power. When you're teaching them, protecting them, you are more than you thought you could be. More understanding, more patient, more capable, more wise.

Jim Butcher

#5. I simply take serious issues seriously, but I do not take myself seriously.

Gordon Gee

#6. In peace-time the scientist belongs to humanity, in war-time to his fatherland.

Fritz Haber

#7. She used to grip me so tightly that the only way I could put her down was to pry her loose, one digit at a time. For two years, I had bruises from her fingers and toes all over my body.

Karen Joy Fowler

#8. I don't think anyone here supports the legislation. But I'd like to hear you at least say that you don't support spanking by any parent, because you choose not to do it. You must think it's wrong.

Sean Hannity

#9. The Swedish Academy of Sciences has seen fit, by awarding the Nobel Prize, to honour the method of producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen.

Fritz Haber

#10. The true poetic urge is the desire for absolute freedom.

Marty Rubin

#11. I know a lot of actors have all these expectations and believe that one thing should lead to another thing, and that's probably the right way to build a career. I don't know what's wrong with me - I just don't think like that!

Melanie Lynskey

#12. An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

Patti Smith

#13. I don't have time for friends.

Alicia Silverstone

#14. We must respect the work we do. A slipshod method never pays- It may get by, but in our minds It makes a scar that always stays.

Rebecca McCann

#15. Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their action into violence, their actors to dolls, and their truth-telling to sentimental platitude.

Karen Haber

#16. Agricultural husbandry essentially maintains the balance of bound nitrogen.

Fritz Haber

#17. During peace time a scientist belongs to the World, but during war time he belongs to his country.

Fritz Haber

#18. I don't like condo life.

Mitch Gaylord

#19. Gaseous nitrogen combines with gaseous hydrogen in simple quantitative proportions to produce gaseous ammonia.

Fritz Haber

#20. Maybe violent wickedness can be decapitated, but stupidity has too many heads.

Andre Glucksmann

#21. I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

Alison Lohman

#22. Death is death no matter how it is inflicted

Fritz Haber

#23. Under natural conditions, the soil does not lose its fixed nitrogen.

Fritz Haber

#24. I like to think I'm positive and optimistic about things generally, but what I write does tend towards the darker end of the spectrum.

Tim Lebbon

#25. So say F**k It to whatever you want to be. And just be who you are. There is no need to be anything else. There is no need to self-develop, or improve. There is no need to be like anyone else. You

John C. Parkin

#26. Joseph Campbell said the privilege of a lifetime is being yourself. That's his feeling. And I guess it's mine too.

Viggo Mortensen