James Cronin Quotes

#1. My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.

James Cronin

#2. The years roll on and life seems like this more and more, that choices don't really exit in the way I thought they would when I was a child and expected the regal power of adulthood to provide clarity and insight.

Scott Turow

#3. If you focus the rays of the sun through a lens, they can burn cotton or a piece of paper; but, the scattered rays cannot do this act. If you collect the dissipated rays of the mind and focus them at a point, you will have wonderful concentration.

Sivananda

#4. Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.

James Cronin

#5. Though he was not legally required to do so, Svenson removed photos of the Fosters from his website and agreed not to take any new pictures or print, exhibit, or publish any of the Fosters' photos in the future. In September 2013, the Fosters

Anonymous

#6. It's just being who you want to be, even if you are a poor kid making loud music
about being unhappy!

John Darnielle

#7. The long-lived K meson was discovered at Brookhaven.

James Cronin

#8. During the day you will approach the frog several times and will utter words of worship. And you will ask it to work the miracles you wish ... Meanwhile you will cut a cross on which to sacrifice it. - From a ritual of Aleister Crowley

Umberto Eco

#9. I have a ninja sitting shotgun. Of course, I'm tense.

Courtney Allison Moulton

#10. That a famous library has been cursed by a woman is a matter of complete indifference to a famous library.

Virginia Woolf

#11. I was much involved in the development of the spark chamber as a practical research tool.

James Cronin

#12. When the violation of parity was discovered I began a series of electronic experiments to investigate parity violation in hyperon decays.

James Cronin

#13. I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison.

James Cronin

#14. I have written my name on the far side of the sky.

Yves Klein

#15. While at Chicago my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who was developing his ideas about Strangeness at the time.

James Cronin

#16. In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics.

James Cronin

#17. In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

James Cronin

#18. The Director of the Laboratory, George Reynolds, was most supportive of my efforts to work independently. There followed for ten years a glorious time for research.

James Cronin

#19. How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?

Ben Bernanke

#20. And I wondered what would become of me, and comforted myself that in a hundred years I would be dead and at peace, and in my grave; and I thought it might be less trouble altogether, to be in it a good deal sooner than that.

Margaret Atwood

#21. What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

Patti Smith

#22. My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University.

James Cronin

#23. There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Epictetus

#24. On even the worst days, when nothing was working at the lab, I knew that at home I would find warmth, peace, companionship, and encouragement. As a consequence, the next day would surely be better.

James Cronin

#25. She was one cocktail away from proving his mother right

Anne Taintor

#26. One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France.

James Cronin

#27. During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays.

James Cronin