Weizmann Quotes

#1. At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.

Ada Yonath

#2. The Weizmann Institute showed me respect and didn't require many administrative tasks, so I was quite independent. I did what I wanted.

Ada Yonath

#3. Let's try to count the number of Nobel prize-winners that have emerged from scientific centres of excellence like the Weizmann Institute and Haifa's technical university, the Technion. There has to be at least 25.

Zubin Mehta

#4. 'I don't say a Zionist must be insane,' said President Weizmann, 'but it helps if he is.'

George Mikes

#5. I used ribosomes from very, very robust bacteria under very, very active conditions and found a way - I actually took advantage of research done before me at the Weizmann, the same institute I am now - how to preserve their activity and their integrity while they crystallized.

Ada Yonath

#6. Subjugate the Arab world. Dr. Weizmann and the Zionists felt

Leon Uris

#7. All necessary measures should be taken to encourage and stimulate immigration of Jews into Palestine on a large scale. - joint statement signed by both Chaim Weizmann and Prince Faisal

Sol Stern

#8. If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.

Maya Angelou

#9. We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not ... You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however better for you to help us so as to avoid our constructive powers being turned into a destructive power which will overthrow the world.

Chaim Weizmann

#10. "American Idol" has done a lot for me. It's a stepping stone in my life.

Diana DeGarmo

#11. Miracles do happen, but you have to work hard at them.

Chaim Weizmann

#12. On one side, the forces of destruction, the forces of the desert, have risen, and on the other hand stand firm the forces of civilization, but we will not be stopped.

Chaim Weizmann

#13. Each country can absorb only a limited number of Jews, if she doesn't want disorders in her stomach. Germany already has too many Jews

Chaim Weizmann

#14. The hard surface of the stone is impervious to nothing in the end. The heat of the sun leaves evidence of daylight. Each drop of rain changes the form; even the wind and the air itself, invisible to our eyes, etches its presence. ... All history is taken in by stones.

Susan Griffin

#15. A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#16. Mountains and oceans do not furnish any impassable barrier to the extension of trade.

Henry J. Heinz

#17. Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended.

Chaim Weizmann

#18. Palestine must be built up without violating the legitimate interests of the Arabs.. Palestine is not Rhodesia ... 600,0000 Arabs live there, who before the sense of justice of the world have exactly the same rights to their homes as we have to our National Home.

Chaim Weizmann

#19. The greater the dark, the easier to be a star.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#20. As scientists the two men were contrasting types - Einstein all calculation, Rutherford all experiment ... There was no doubt that as an experimenter Rutherford was a genius, one of the greatest. He worked by intuition and everything he touched turned to gold. He had a sixth sense.

Chaim Weizmann

#21. Would it have been worthwhile
If one settling a pillow by her head should say:
That is not what I meant at all
That is not it at all

T. S. Eliot

#22. There are no English, French, German or American Jews, but only Jews > > >living in England, France, Germany or America.

Chaim Weizmann

#23. The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom he has confidence that his livelihood is in danger of being taken away from him by us, he becomes our mortal enemy ... The Arab is primitive and believes what he is told.

Chaim Weizmann

#24. Now in the light of past and present events the bitter truth must be spoken. We feared too little and we hoped too much. We underestimated the bestiality of the enemy; we overestimtaed the humanity, the wisdom, the sense of justice of our friends.

Chaim Weizmann

#25. Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

Chaim Weizmann

#26. Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable.

William Hague

#27. I head a nation of a million presidents.

Chaim Weizmann

#28. Father Brown: I never said it was always wrong to enter fairyland, I only said it was always dangerous.

G.K. Chesterton

#29. I only understand friendship or scorched earth.

Roger Ailes

#30. If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

William Wilberforce

#31. I always knew my mom was a good actress.

Gia Coppola

#32. Spin is 'something is beautiful because we say it's beautiful.'

Junot Diaz

#33. I'd laboured over it a long while, and labour brings a thing near the heart's core.

Mary Webb

#34. A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.

Chaim Weizmann

#35. Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.

Lillian Hellman

#36. Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.

Chaim Weizmann

#37. Einstein ... always spoke to me of Rutherford in the highest terms, calling him a second Newton.

Chaim Weizmann