Meer Quotes

#1. The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.

Henry Vaughan

#2. The eye hath ruined me,' the heart complained. 'The heart has lost me,' the eye replied. I know not which told the truth, which lied Between, the two, it was Meer who died.

Khushwant Singh

#3. Those in their snug Bed-chambers may call the Fears of Night meer Bugbears, but their Minds have not pierced into the Horror of the World which others, who are adrift upon it, know.

Peter Ackroyd

#4. Ymir," Luisa said, pronouncing it as she'd heard Sean do: ee-meer. A word from Norse mythology referring to primordial ice giants. Sean's code name for a particular hunk of ice that his project had identified, and that he meant to bring back. "Yeah.

Neal Stephenson

#5. I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.

Simon Van Der Meer

#6. His hooves pound the beat, your heart sings the song.

Jerry Shulman

#7. At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an end; I joined a study group on the pp project and an experimental team studying cooling in a small ring (ICE).

Simon Van Der Meer

#8. Greeks have a sense about wine and coffee.

Vanessa Star

#9. Kids are always chasing rainbows, but baseball is a world where you can catch them.

Johnny Vander Meer

#10. If the Milky Way were not within me how should I have seen it or known it?

Kahlil Gibran

#11. Since then, I have worked with the group that commissioned and improved the ring and that is now preparing the construction of a second ring to increase the p stacking rate by an order of magnitude.

Simon Van Der Meer

#12. Instead of constantly enhancing the norm - forever upping the ante of the 'normal' with new technologies - we should work on enhancing the concept of normal by broadening appreciation of anatomical variation.

Alice Dreger

#13. My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators.

Simon Van Der Meer

#14. All the publicity, the attention, the interviews, the photographs, were too much for me (after throwing his second no-hitter in 1938).

Johnny Vander Meer

#15. Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset.

Simon Van Der Meer

#16. My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

Simon Van Der Meer

#17. When you have grasped a problem clearly, face it with resolution, for that is the way of the strong.

Khalil Gibran

#18. With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.

Orhan Pamuk

#19. After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR.

Simon Van Der Meer

#20. What a cruel thing war is ... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

Robert E.Lee

#21. Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.

Simon Van Der Meer

#22. We are moving into a new world and the old negativity will be left behind. Through the law of cause and effect, we can change the world, one person at a time.

Dolores Cannon

#23. The approach of von Neumann and Connes to the use of non-commutative algebra in physics is naive, the situation is much more complicated.

Israel Gelfand