Top 54 Quotes About Hendrik
#1. In Munich, Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, a rare European NATO leader who has a clear picture of events, told Merkel that the choice was "surrender or arm Ukraine" - to no effect.
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#2. If we brought the mammoth back to Siberia, maybe that would be good for the ecosystems that are changing because of climate change.
Hendrik Poinar
#3. Music is part of Number Theory. Nowadays when a number-theorist applies for a grant, he says that it is good for security, but in those days, way before America, he would say that it's good for music. I will not comment whether we have progressed ...
Hendrik Lenstra
#4. For tolerance (and you must remember this when you grow older), is of very recent origin and even the people of our own so-called "modern world" are apt to be tolerant only upon such matters as do not interest them very much.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#5. In another chapter I have told you how in the year 800 a German chieftain had become a Roman Emperor. Now in the year 1066 the grandson of a Norse pirate was recognised as King of England. Why should we ever read fairy stories, when the truth of history is so much more interesting and entertaining?
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#6. The history of man is the record of a hungry creature in search of food. Wherever food was plentiful, thither man has travelled to make his home. - Page 22
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#7. I cannot but regard the ether, which can be the seat of an electromagnetic field with its energy and its vibrations, as endowed with a certain degree of substantiality, however different it may be from all ordinary matter.
Hendrik Lorentz
#11. A person's character is what it is. It's a little like a marriage - only without the option of divorce. You can work on it and try to make it better, but basically you have to take the bitter with the sweet.
Hendrik Hertzberg
#12. Teeth actually turn out to be one of a couple of good sources of ancient DNA. The teeth, actually the enamel, is quite good at preserving the DNA, so it is a bit of time capsule so to speak.
Hendrik Poinar
#13. Unfair in practice is not the same thing as wrong in principle, but sometimes it has to do.
Hendrik Hertzberg
#14. An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#15. A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#16. The foundation for a new era was laid but yesterday. The human was given its first chance to become truly civilised when it took courage to question all things and made 'knowledge and understanding' the foundation upon which to create a more reasonable and sensible society of human beings.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#17. The main application of Pure Mathematics is to make you happy.
Hendrik Lenstra
#19. There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme park?
Hendrik Poinar
#20. The world is in dreadful need of men who will assume the new leadership - who will have the courage of their own visions and who will recognise clearly that we are only at the beginning of the voyage, and have to learn an entirely new system of seamanship.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#22. A math lecture without a proof is like a movie without a love scene. This talk has two proofs.
Hendrik Lenstra
#23. The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state.
Hendrik Verwoerd
#25. Scientists have always thought that because mammoths roamed such a huge territory - from Western Europe to Central North America - that North American woolly mammoths were a sideshow of no particular significance to the evolution of the species.
Hendrik Poinar
#26. I laughed when Steven Spielberg said that cloning extinct animals was inevitable. But I'm not laughing anymore, at least about mammoths. This is going to happen. It's just a matter of working out the details.
Hendrik Poinar
#27. Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague.
Hendrik Poinar
#28. When I was a young boy, I used to gaze through the microscope of my father at the insects in amber that he kept in the house. And they were remarkably well preserved, morphologically just phenomenal.
Hendrik Poinar
#29. I'm not sure the Russians would be happy that their iconic wooly mammoth has North American origins.
Hendrik Poinar
#30. Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
Hendrik Hertzberg
#31. Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian?
Hendrik Hertzberg
#32. High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and once every thousand years a little bird comes to this mountain to sharpen its beak. When the mountain has thus been worn away a single day of eternity will have passed.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#33. This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as we are making consciously for some definite goal. And a Utopia, however strange or fanciful, is the only possible beacon upon the uncharted seas of the distant future.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#34. Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#35. The "freedom movement" is a racist movement as such. But it's a virulent example of identity politics. "Whiteness" is part of the identity, but not the most important part.
Hendrik Hertzberg
#36. A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."
Hendrik Hertzberg
#37. History is the mighty tower of experience, which time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. - Forward
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#38. Physicists dream of Nobel prizes, engineers dream of mishaps.
Hendrik Tennekes
#39. There's no environment I can think of that would have remained constant enough to preserve dinosaur DNA.
Hendrik Poinar
#40. You can go into caves, and they can maintain constant conditions of temperature and humidity over long periods of time, even though the outside temperature may be way above what it is inside the cave.
Hendrik Poinar
#41. In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#42. When Death lurks at the door, the physician is considered as a God. When danger has been overcome, the physician is looked upon as an angel. When the patient begins to convalesce, the physician becomes a mere human. When the physician asks for his fees, he is considered as the devil himself.
Hendrik Goltzius
#43. The Boeing 747 is the commuter train of the global village.
Hendrik Tennekes
#45. Recreational number theory [ ... ] is that part of number theory that is too difficult to study.
Hendrik Lenstra
#46. It turns out that there are swaths of habitat in the north of Siberia and Yukon that actually could house a mammoth. Remember, this was a highly plastic animal that lived over tremendous climate variation.
Hendrik Poinar
#47. On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#48. The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#49. We know African and Asian elephants can interbreed, and they're separated by 5 million to 6 million years.
Hendrik Poinar
#50. Nuclear DNA encodes all the proteins and enzymes that make you you, basically.
Hendrik Poinar
#51. Typically, there's a drive in science to do something just to say you've done it.
Hendrik Poinar
#52. Blacks should never be shown the greener pastures of education, they should know that their station in life is to be hewers of wood and drawers of water.
Hendrik Verwoerd
#53. The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.
Hendrik Hertzberg
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