Top 23 Luis Walter Alvarez Quotes
#1. [My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try to think of new problems to solve. I took his advice very seriously and have been glad ever since that he did.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#2. You have the ability to choose what you want to experience.
Rhonda Byrne
#3. Just tell 'em you're gonna soak the fat boys and forget the rest of the tax stuff ... Willie, make 'em cry, make 'em laugh, make 'em mad, even mad at you. Stir them up and they'll love it and come back for more, but, for heaven's sakes, don't try to improve their minds.
Robert Penn Warren
#5. Reflection is and remains the hardest creditor in existence; hitherto it has cunningly bought up all the possible views of life, but it cannot buy the essentially religious and eternal view of life.
Soren Kierkegaard
#6. Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
Sophocles
#7. I believe in small government and people taking care of themselves.
Susan Olsen
#8. At the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, we have long had a tradition of close cooperation between physicists and technicians.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#9. Janet Landis came to work in my group in the summer of 1957 when our first bubble-chamber was churning out its earliest pictures.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#10. Actually, she is squeezing me, and her armpits smell. I expect more hygiene from sane people, but I say nothing.
Cameron Jace
#11. One indicator of Ernest Lawrence's influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his laboratory staff to receive the highest award that can come to a scientist - the Nobel Prize.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#12. I'm hoping that what I am or what I'm not ethnically doesn't limit me in anyone else's eyes. I guarantee you it doesn't in mine.
Wentworth Miller
#13. Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#14. If the president of the college had asked me what I thought about Dewey McLean, I'd say he's a weak sister. I thought he'd been knocked out of the ball game and had just disappeared, because nobody invites him to conferences anymore.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#15. There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
Abraham Lincoln
#16. Writing every day is very, very helpful, but set the bar at a place where you have no excuse: It doesn't matter how tired you are, how late it is, you will do it. So if you say, "I will write one hundred words a day" - set the bar there, and then you can actually get over that bar.
N.D. Wilson
#17. There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#18. Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty, and we dream of finding new secrets of nature as important and as exciting as those uncovered by our scientific heroes.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#19. Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."
Luis Walter Alvarez
#20. Do I take criticism of Starbucks personally? Of course I do.
Howard Schultz
#21. When I received my B. S. degree in 1932, only two of the fundamental particles of physics were known.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#22. This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures.
Martin Chemnitz
#23. I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.
Luis Walter Alvarez
