Top 28 Quotes About Luis Alvarez
#1. If the president of the college had asked me what I thought about Dewey McLean, I'd say he's a weak sister. I thought he'd been knocked out of the ball game and had just disappeared, because nobody invites him to conferences anymore.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#2. No choice recurs. We may get similar choices again, but never that exact one. Hesitation - inaction - is just as irrevocable as action. What the motorist, locked on the one-way road, is to space, we are to the fourth dimension: we truly pass this way but once.
Brian Christian
#4. I don't want to end up simply having visited the world.
Mary Oliver
#5. My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.
Charles Edison
#6. I'd like to marry a lady who had trances, and only woke up once or twice a year
E. Nesbit
#7. At the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, we have long had a tradition of close cooperation between physicists and technicians.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#8. I think that people in general appreciate honesty and not trying to cook something up just to fit a mold that would be beneficial for you. I never made music like that.
Sam Hunt
#9. As long as we win games while I'm on the mound, I feel good.
CC Sabathia
#10. Janet Landis came to work in my group in the summer of 1957 when our first bubble-chamber was churning out its earliest pictures.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#11. One indicator of Ernest Lawrence's influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his laboratory staff to receive the highest award that can come to a scientist - the Nobel Prize.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#12. Someone who believes everything he is told simply can't be a scientist, but someone who believes nothing will wind up in jail or prematurely buried.
Luis Alvarez
#13. Around the lab I heard that publicity was measured in an absolute unit, the "kan". That unit was too large for ordinary application and a practical unit one one-thousandth of the size served in its place, the "millikan".
Luis W. Alvarez
#14. [My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try to think of new problems to solve. I took his advice very seriously and have been glad ever since that he did.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#15. Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.
Joyce Meyer
#16. Hitch hiked a thousand
miles and brought
You wine
Jack Kerouac
#17. I think zombies are kind of cute."
"Seriously?"
"I may be thinking about bunnies. Which one has the fluffy little tail, zombies or bunnies?"
"Bunnies."
"Then it's bunnies I'm thinking of.
Derek Landy
#18. There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#20. You really have to get out of an actor's head to write because actors only care about their part and it revolves around their part so "This is the important part because this is the part where ... " .
Grant Heslov
#21. Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty, and we dream of finding new secrets of nature as important and as exciting as those uncovered by our scientific heroes.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#22. Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."
Luis Walter Alvarez
#23. Arthur Compton became my graduate advisor. He was the ideal graduate advisor for me: he came into my research room only once during my graduate career and usually had no idea how I was spending my time.
Luis W. Alvarez
#24. When I received my B. S. degree in 1932, only two of the fundamental particles of physics were known.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#25. I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#26. I'm a natural-born boss, I have to say. I just like to be good at things. Even as a child, I was boss of my family.
Tom Ford
#27. Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#28. But, as always, Mr. Rooney would come over and shake your hand and congratulate you on a good game, no matter what the situation was.
Franco Harris
