Irene Joliot Curie Quotes

#1. NBC's a little jealous of CNN correspondent Wolf Blitzer. They want to get a reporter with a macho-sounding name too, so they're changing Irving R. Levine's name to Scud Shrapnel.

Johnny Carson

#2. That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life - this our mother has told us always, but never that science was the only career worth following.

Irene Joliot-Curie

#3. It was at the beginning of 1934 while working on the emission of these positive electrons that we noticed a fundamental difference between that transmutation and all the others so far produced; all the reactions of nuclear chemistry induced were instantaneous phenomena, explosions.

Irene Joliot-Curie

#4. Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.

Clint Eastwood

#5. We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.

Irene Joliot-Curie

#6. The brutal honesty of a friend is better than the fake flattery of an enemy.

Me

#7. My middle school health teacher told us that you can hold eye contact for ten seconds before scaring or seducing someone.

Caroline Kepnes

#8. When we learn to live well in this life with nothing left unsaid or undone we find peace, freedom and full self-expression. With that, we are capable of anything.

Jacqueline Harrison

#9. What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.

Angelus Silesius

#10. The time necessary for the disappearance of half the atoms, called the half-life, is a fundamental characteristic of each radio-element; according to the substance, the value of the half-life varies between a fraction of a second and millions of years.

Irene Joliot-Curie

#11. The farther the experiment is from theory, the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.

Irene Joliot-Curie

#12. Each emission of an alpha or beta ray accompanies the transmutation of an atom; the energy communicated to these rays comes from inside the atom.

Irene Joliot-Curie

#13. Creativity is born of chaos, even if it is somewhat difficult to glimpse the possibilities in the midst of the confusion.

Charles Handy

#14. when you have a reasonable reason to dare, dare swiftly and unrelentingly

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah