Sommerfeld's Quotes

#1. Sommerfeld's fine-structure theory was generally considered to be excellently and unambiguously confirmed by experiment. Because the theory rested on the foundation provided by Bohr, the experiments were also taken as strong support for his theory of atomic structure.

Helge Kragh

#2. I am so close to the edge that I could vomit, so close that it would be easy to jump.

Samantha Schutz

#3. Consent to petting isn't consent to penetration.

Kate McGuinness

#4. In future, lots of things will be made from beans and fibres grown on the farmers' fields. This new science is called chemurgy. Plastics, for industry, will come from the soil.

Henry Williamson

#5. All integral laws of spectral lines and of atomic theory spring originally from the quantum theory. It is the mysterious organon on which Nature plays her music of the spectra, and according to the rhythm of which she regulates the structure of the atoms and nuclei.

Arnold Sommerfeld

#6. My body is an efficient happy-thought-killing machine.

Jasmine Warga

#7. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation

Bobby Knight

#8. And what is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and spurred by the fair delusion of progress, I will seek to progress, to whip myself on, to more and more- to learning. Always.

Sylvia Plath

#9. Michael tousled my hair and said, "Remember, no more skateboards, right?" And then this gem: "If you ever break your arm skateboarding again ... " He paused, flashing me a dimpled Charles Ingalls grin, which then suddenly disappeared. "I'll break the other one.

Alison Arngrim

#10. Profound sadness is always the result of an unhealthy condition of the body ... We [should] say, 'I am sad; everything looks black to me; but external events are in no way responsible. It's my body that insists on reasoning. These are the opinions of my stomach.'

Emile Chartier

#11. I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.

Aphra Behn

#12. Perfect wisdom is silence.

Kenneth Reimer

#13. Infatuation means, 'A love that it is inconvenient to go on with.

Celia Fremlin

#14. If you want to be a physicist, you must do three things-first, study mathematics, second, study more mathematics, and third, do the same.

Arnold Sommerfeld

#15. I have a visual sense for the music. It has to stay true to a certain sense of period. I rely on a sense of colors and mood in my approach to the arrangement.

Leon Redbone

#16. Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.

Arnold Sommerfeld