Quotes About Spectroscopy

#1. Spectroscopy can probably answer the question, 'Is there anybody out there?' Are we alone?

Garik Israelian

#2. It's not very fun to do spectroscopy.

Garik Israelian

#3. Solving Problems with NMR Spectroscopy is a very welcome addition to the existing literature. It fulfills a real need for an up-to-date and authoritatively written introduction for students and practitioners of NMR.

Richard Ernst

#4. An attempt to study the evolution of living organisms without reference to cytology would be as futile as an account of stellar evolution which ignored spectroscopy.

John B. S. Haldane

#5. The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting.

James Rainwater

#6. A stars rich in europium; of distant galaxies analyzed through the collective light of a hundred billion constituent stars. Astronomical spectroscopy is an almost magical technique. It amazes me still. Auguste Comte picked a particularly unfortunate example.

Carl Sagan

#7. Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.

Francis Crick

#8. Villainy was not simply the red raging glory of inflicting well-deserved pain; it was also the curdling knowledge of having inflicted injustice. A villain simply did not care. Only the victims did.

Meredith Duran

#9. I found powerful the idea that everything we have is, in effect, stolen from everybody else.

Daniel Handler

#10. The strenuous life tastes better

William James

#11. 12When ahe was in distress, he entreated the LORD his God and bhumbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#12. Fundamentally it is only our own basic thoughts that possess truth and life, for only these do we really understand through and through. The thoughts of another that we have read are crumbs from another's table, the cast-off clothes of an unfamiliar guest.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#13. Patterns are prostitution to the patter of parents.

Luke Rhinehart

#14. History is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost in confusion if they could not fix their position.

Allan Nevins

#15. Even in the lives of fishes, sensation is seldom a matter of one thing or another. Senses overlap. The lines between them often tend to be blurred, and the best that we can manage, by way of description from the outside, is to say that the senses of fishes appear to dominate one at a time.

Lyall Watson

#16. Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

Mark Van Doren

#17. Yet he was tense, feeling that he and the elderly, estranged woman were conferring together like traitors, like enemies within the camp of the other people.

D.H. Lawrence

#18. Look here, I have succeeded at last in fetching some gold from the sun.

{After his banker questioned the value of investigating gold in the Fraunhofer lines of the sun and Kirchhoff handing him over a medal he was awarded for his investigations.}

Gustav Kirchhoff

#19. Running was a part of my hardwiring, and that's what I wanted to do. So this is what I tell people who talk about wanting to follow their passion. 'It doesn't have to be running. It can be basket weaving. Be the best basket weaver in the world. Throw your heart and soul into it.'

Dean Karnazes

#20. Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself.

William Hazlitt

#21. I'm trying to be very aware of not repeating myself.

Christoph Waltz