Top 22 Van Allen Quotes
#1. We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines.
James Van Allen
#2. My sense of myself is that I was a rather unformed kind of person trying to make myself up out of bits of spit and string.
Robyn Davidson
#3. You think whatever is wrong with you is contagious, then?'
She laughed again. 'Yes, but you have it already. You caught it from your mother. Death.
Gene Wolfe
#4. He went like one that hath been stunn'd,
And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man
He rose the morrow morn.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#5. Live, love, knowing that we're all free Now that we are blessed in our country And realise how lucky we are
Olivia Newton-John
#6. I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.
James Van Allen
#7. A perfect method of adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.
Alyce Cornyn-Selby
#8. The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues.
Robert Hofstadter
#9. Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.
James Van Allen
#10. I like so many different directors: Scorsese, Coppola, Cassavetes, Jarmusch, Gus van Sant, Woody Allen and the greats like Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky and among current filmmakers von Trier, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#11. And if ever there's a time to move beyond one's boundaries it's when one has, literally, moved beyond them.
Jill Alexander Essbaum
#12. These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.
James Van Allen
#13. Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.
James Van Allen
#14. Religion does not define God's character God reveals it to us in His word and in person, in His Son Jesus Christ.
Jonah Books
#15. I am never as clear about any matter as when I have finished writing about it.
James Van Allen
#17. 'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work.
Dave Sim
#18. A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now. He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and keeping him comfortable and working.
James Van Allen
#19. I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'
James Van Allen
#20. I do believe in monsters oddly enough. I think they're under my bed. But aliens are ridiculous; monsters I think are real completely though.
Seth Rogen
#21. I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I could work with rockets and balloons. I'm a kind of a hybrid between an engineer and a physicist and astronomer.
James Van Allen
#22. Clearly Democrats are not united in what is the critique of what we're doing there and what is the answer to what we do next. The difficulty of coming to a unified position is that for a lot of people who voted for it, they have to decide whether they can admit that they were misled.
Steve Elmendorf
