Hans Bethe Quotes

#1. Although Oppenheimer's mind was not the whiz-bang computer of a John von Neumann or the astral navigation system of a Hans Bethe, it processed other men's original contributions so adeptly that for multifaceted excellence it may well have been the finest scientific instrument of all.

Algis Valiunas

#2. I learn my songs by ear.

Kate Smith

#3. Nature is shy and noncommittal in a crowd. To learn her secrets, visit her alone or with a single friend, at most. Everything evades you, everything hides, even your thoughts escape you, when you walk in a crowd.

Edwin Way Teale

#4. 'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.

Pamela Sargent

#5. Congress is dysfunctional.

Bob Filner

#6. Stars have a life cycle much like animals. They get born, they grow, they go through a definite internal development, and finally they die, to give back the material of which they are made so that new stars may live

Hans Bethe

#7. I am an atheist.

Hans Bethe

#8. I call on all scientists in all countries to cease and desist from work creating, developing, improving and manufacturing further nuclear weapons - and, for that matter, other weapons of potential mass destruction such as chemical and biological weapons.

Hans Bethe

#9. I am not a philosopher.

Hans Bethe

#10. In the music industry, you meet some not very nice people, some very strange characters.

Midge Ure

#11. Well, I come down in the morning and I take up a pencil and
I try to THINK.

Hans Bethe

#12. I've tried to meditate, but I feel like I always overthink the process. When I need to calm my mind, I will go for a family hike.

Jacob Vargas

#13. If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.

Henri Matisse

#14. If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for, but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.

Hans Bethe

#15. Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.

Ai Weiwei

#16. Local defense will always be important. But there is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty land power of the Communist world. Local defense must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power.

John Foster Dulles

#17. If you want to get educated, fall in love with learning.

Debasish Mridha

#18. A line I like to use is, "Every day is training. Every day of life is a pursuit of perfection."

Jonathan Horton

#19. If you are only a teacher but not a student, then you are incomplete; if you are only a student but not a teacher, then you are incomplete! To be complete, you must be both student and teacher!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

Don Henley

#21. It would seem, therefore, that this constitutional safeguard may no longer serve its original purpose, especially when, as we learned last year, some acts of perjury may now be acceptable - in this world, at least, if not the next.

James L. Buckley

#22. I Love You

and your perfect ask

'Would you scratch my back?' is enough

to stretch out hands because folk who love

happily scratch backs where a person can't reach

John Lavan