Lord Rayleigh Quotes

#1. Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered as an ideal man of science, had said so and if that was the case, I felt that I should concentrate on some big idea.

Nikola Tesla

#2. The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.

C. V. Raman

#3. I'm finding that the older I get, it's not that I learn new things, it's more like I find out how much of what I know is common knowledge.

Sam Lipsyte

#4. MAN IS FUNDAMENTALLY AN ANIMAL. Animals, as distinct from man, are not machine-like, not sadistic; their societies, within the same species, are incomparably more peaceful than those of man. The basic question, then is: What has made the animal, man, degenerate into a machine?

Wilhelm Reich

#5. A gifted wizard, but an unlikely politician, McLaird was an exceptionally taciturn man who preferred to communicate in monosyllables and expressive puffs of smoke that he produced through the end of his wand. Forced from office out of sheer irritation at his eccentricities.

J.K. Rowling

#6. I'm doing what I've always done. Learning from the mistakes of others who take my advice.

Nitya Prakash

#7. You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.

Michael Jackson

#8. I constantly make fashion mistakes but I think it's good to take risks.

Clemence Poesy

#9. Who is an authentic seeker, but someone who has understood that there is nothing else to do but practice? Enthusiastic or discouraged, he or she continues, no matter what.

Lee Lozowick

#10. If you want to see your life, you have to see through the eyes of another.

Mark Henshaw