Melvin Calvin Quotes

#1. To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself.

Melvin Calvin

#2. I started getting more in tune with who I am by doing roles or even just being around people.

Common

#3. What we long for, we shall possess.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).

Otto Von Bismarck

#5. Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.

Graeme Murphy

#6. For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.

Melvin Calvin

#7. I had a chance. I knew I had no more than that. it's all a hero asks for.

John Gardner

#8. Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.

Julia Sawalha

#9. If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well.

Melvin Calvin