Ivar Quotes

#1. It's cold out there, colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night.

Tom Waits

#2. One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew if he asked the right question, so he spent a portion of his time meditating over what he might ask Mrs. Walker and how he might phrase the question.

Jane Smiley

#3. He died without cutting his nails, she said accusingly, as if I was responsible for that ill luck, and it was bad fortune indeed because now the grim things of the underworld would use Ivar's nails to build the ship that would bring chaos at the world's end.

Bernard Cornwell

#4. Nobel Prize winner Ivar Giaever reminds us that "in pseudoscience you begin with a hypothesis which is very appealing to you, and then you only look for things which confirm the hypothesis".

Mark Steyn

#5. I don't call myself a political figure but I'm taken to be.

Muhammad Ali

#6. I don't really know what the future of science is. Maybe we have come to the end of science; maybe science is a finite field. The inventions resulting from this finite field, however, are boundless.

Ivar Giaever

#7. If you want to help Africa, you should help them out of poverty, not try to build solar cells and windmills.

Ivar Giaever

#8. Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.

Ivar Giaever

#9. Is climate change pseudoscience? If I'm going to answer the question, the answer is: absolutely.

Ivar Giaever

#10. I'm definitely a lot more comfortable now in my 40s than in my 30s - that's for sure.

Pauly Shore

#11. If I have learned anything as a scientist, it is that one should not make things complicated when a simple explanation will do.

Ivar Giaever

#12. If you're a physicist, for heaven's sake, and here is the experiment, and you have a theory, and the theory doesn't agree with the experiment, then you have to cut out the theory. You were wrong with the theory.

Ivar Giaever

#13. In psychoanalysis there is never repetition, neither of the same images nor

Italo Svevo

#14. There are just two things you can do to win a Nobel prize - have a good idea and pursue it effectively.

Ivar Giaever

#15. I would say that, basically, global warming is a non-problem.

Ivar Giaever

#16. A few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of doing sloppy calisthenics or forced contortion.

Joseph Pilates

#17. While classical mechanics correctly predicts the behavior of large objects such as tennis balls, to predict the behavior of small objects such as electrons, we must use quantum mechanics.

Ivar Giaever

#18. Anger as well as love casts out fear ...

Margaret Deland

#19. There are 15 main theories in physics, and we know all of them. If there weren't a finite number of theories, there would not be a point to physics.

Ivar Giaever

#20. To me the greatest moment in an experiment is always just before I learn whether the particular idea is a good or a bad one. Thus even a failure is exciting, and most of my ideas have of course been wrong.

Ivar Giaever

#21. If they can't learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn.

Ole Ivar Lovaas

#22. 'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.

Ivar Giaever

#23. Swedes, we are not - Russians, we do not want to become ... so let us be Finnish.

Adolf Ivar Arwidsson

#24. Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Ivar Giaever

#25. Global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money.

Ivar Giaever

#26. When I was 28 years old, I found myself in Schenectady, New York, where I discovered that it was possible for some people to make a good living as physicists.

Ivar Giaever

#27. I am a skeptic ... Global warming has become a new religion.

Ivar Giaever

#28. Mobilis in Mobile

Jules Verne

#29. You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel.

Ivar Giaever