Quotes About Bethe

#1. If one reads the biographies of physicists like Bohr, Heisenberg, Chandrashekhar, and Bethe, one gets the impression that without hikes in the mountains and the vision of night skies their science would not have amounted to much.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#2. Although Oppenheimer's mind was not the whiz-bang computer of a John von Neumann or the astral navigation system of a Hans Bethe, it processed other men's original contributions so adeptly that for multifaceted excellence it may well have been the finest scientific instrument of all.

Algis Valiunas

#3. Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.

Benedict Joseph Labre

#4. It's a question of discipline ... When you finish washing and dressing each morning, you must carefully wash and dress your planet.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#5. Stars have a life cycle much like animals. They get born, they grow, they go through a definite internal development, and finally they die, to give back the material of which they are made so that new stars may live

Hans Bethe

#6. I am an atheist.

Hans Bethe

#7. I call on all scientists in all countries to cease and desist from work creating, developing, improving and manufacturing further nuclear weapons - and, for that matter, other weapons of potential mass destruction such as chemical and biological weapons.

Hans Bethe

#8. As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

Alexis De Tocqueville

#9. I am not a philosopher.

Hans Bethe

#10. Well, I come down in the morning and I take up a pencil and
I try to THINK.

Hans Bethe

#11. Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.

Gary Bauer

#12. It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.

J. R. Martinez

#13. Leah, go be with your husband," I say. "Before he realizes that he's still in love with me.

Tarryn Fisher

#14. Being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligations but being able to love.

Jeanette Winterson

#15. If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for, but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.

Hans Bethe

#16. A candid, honest and pure answer.

Maki Minami

#17. You think defending this nation [americans] is expensive, try not defending it. That's a lot more expensive.

Ted Cruz

#18. At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.

T. S. Eliot

#19. There remained a hole drilled through his heart.

Norman Mailer

#20. It hasn't been easy, you know. Having the dead for company. Knowing that I'll never be accepted by the living. Only the dead respects me, and they only do that out of fear.

Rick Riordan

#21. I've lived a slower and less expensive life going off the grid, and I'm happier because of it.

Ed Begley Jr.