Max Von Laue Quotes

#1. It would, Grimm thought, be a horrible surprise to find out, mid-dive, that your ship had suddenly lost the ability to stop diving.

Jim Butcher

#2. All of us bear God's image, all are worthy to be loved, all can grow in the spirit of God.

Steve Berry

#3. All right, indeed! That was hardly the word. All right, in her blue jacket with the silver buttons! All right with her gold locket round her neck! All right with the parrot-headed umbrella under her arm!

P.L. Travers

#4. Don't let what your parents do disappoint you.

Richard Ford

#5. I had noticed that I had no difficulty conversing with robots, because absolutely nothing surprised them. They were incapable of surprise. A very sensible quality.

Stanislaw Lem

#6. Papa, ain't it a caution that we can only eat two legs off a frog, 'stead of four."
And he said: "Rob, here's what you do. You catch a real big bullfrog and make friends with him. And teach him to jump backwards. That'll make his front legs big as the hind.

Robert Newton Peck

#7. If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light.

Max Von Laue

#8. There is no doubt that I, also, had long been aware of the problem, i.e. producing X-ray interferences, before the inherent difficulties had finally been surmounted.

Max Von Laue

#9. For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an integral factor.

Max Von Laue

#10. The only religious opinion I feel sure of is this: self-awareness is not just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

Robert A. Heinlein

#11. I looked at Micah, who shrugged. I looked at Rafael, who shook his head. Nice that none of us knew why he was undressing.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#12. Sometimes life may look complicated than it is, but you'll have to play it just the way it is and make it proper, the way you would wish it to be in your own words.

Auliq Ice

#13. But I have always suspected that one could substitute the Minuet of Haydn's 98th symphony for the Minuet in Haydn's 99th symphony without sensing a serious lack of coherence in either work.

Aaron Copland

#14. For both reasons, owing to the thermal motion and to the working together of various wavelengths, factors arise which, in a similar manner to the structural factor, exert some influence upon the brightness of the interference points but not upon their location.

Max Von Laue

#15. One would have called it a luminous wound.

Victor Hugo

#16. I spoil my children rotten and hope to leave them enough so they can do the same to theirs.

Charles Saatchi

#17. For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power.

Max Von Laue

#18. Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a lightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat ...

Nick Gordon

#19. I photographed Arthur Coble and his sons Milton and Darrel as they did chores, but the vicious winds made it difficult to see and breathe.

Arthur Rothstein

#20. Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.

Max Von Laue

#21. The Asian airlines have the best wine programs.

Alain Ducasse